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Originally Posted by garysher  Inferior? Or just different? |
Inferior. When you are denied the benefits and recognition granted to others, that is inferior treatment.
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Your question makes a moot point. It's like asking why should we treat same sex couples the same as opposite sex couples when they are not the same?
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No two people are the same. No two couples are the same. Every person is different from every other. Yet for the most part, we try to treat them the same. Blondes are treated the same as brunettes. Left-handed people are treated the same as right-handed people. Christians are treated the same as Buddhists.
But when it comes to same-sex marriage, you're telling me that gay people should be treated in an inferior fashion. I would like to know why.
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All these euphemisms skirt around the main issue, which is that most people consider homosexuals to be
defective
dysfunctional
weird
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So what?
Again, you could say that about a lot of things. People might say blind people are defective, dysfunctional and weird. People can think whatever they like.
But how does this make it okay to treat gay people inferior to straight people?
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Most people agree homosexuals should be able to carry on with their lifestyles regardless of how we think of them
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Sure, they can carry on, but they have to pay the price for it, right? They shouldn't expect the same special privledges granted to straight couples. That's what you're saying, right? That we should give gay couples less?
So how do you justify treating gay people as inferior?
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However, sooner or later we reach a point where we have to draw the line.
THe redefinition of marriage to accommodate homosexuals represents that line
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Remember that we're only talking
legal marriage here, not religious. So what you're basically saying is, "Our laws treat gay people as inferior, but changing a law to make gay people equal is going too far."
So what is the problem with changing a law? Laws are changed every day, and there is no better reason to change a law than to make an inferior group equal to everyone else.
So if you want to perpetuate a law which treats gay people as inferior, I would like to hear your justification for it.