It is not a question of what is PC, Ake. It is a question of what is just. It is not just to divide society and award certain legal rights to one section, and not the other, based solely on a single trait relating to a private matter. It violates the basic right to privacy, for one thing. It violates the fundamental principle of equal treatment under law. The fact that you don't like these people being entitled to the legal priveleges of marriage is no more a barrier than the fact that many Mississippians disliked the Civil Rights Act. It was a matter of justice.

As to indvidual churches being willing or not willing to grant the sacrament of marriage -- a religious and cultural, not legal, state -- that is up to them. The State should have no say in such a bias, however.


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