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Originally Posted by Larv
At great risk of going OT, here’s where that dogma breaks down logically: there are no laws in America that prohibit either homosexual people or left-handed people from getting married...
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I refer you now to the Defense of Marriage Act passed in 1996.
Defense of Marriage Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Separate, but equal is not equal at all, and I seem to remember almost the exact same argument being put forth in the 60s about whites and blacks not being allowed to marry.
Even if you disagree, definitions of words change, and the Christian church itself performed gay marriage ceremonies as far back as the 11 and 1200s, so the "traditional definition" argument fails on numerous fronts.
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Originally Posted by Larv
Left-handed people can marry other left-handed people of the opposite sex, and homosexual people an marry other homosexual people of the opposite sex. So, whose dogma wins out in this dogma match.
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It's not about dogma, but about reality and equality. You are essentially arguing that there is no discrimination because gay people are allowed to marry people of the opposite sex, just like hetero people can. What this blindly misses, however, is the fact that the approach itself is inherently discriminatory because one group is being allowed to marry the person they love, and the other not... and all for no relevant secular purpose. The only "purpose" such an approach has is to institutionalize bigotry... to prevent equal protections... and to discriminate against those "icky" gays.
There is no measurable harm done to other people by allowing two people of the same sex to wed. Any supposed "harm" is self-inflicted by the bigot himself, and not a direct result of the marriage of two same sex partners. Hence, attempts to prevent same sex partners from marrying via the law are unconstitutional, and anyone who supports such attempts is a bigot who would be better off in the middle ages, as their views are anything but modern and enlightened on this matter.
