Thread: Is it possible to just debate gay marriage itself?
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Old 05-07-2008, 12:17 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tristanrobin View Post
Not if, as the O.P. states, the country is based on equality and not the caprices and/or tyrannies of the majority.

And there are already legal gay marriages in the U.S. - have been for years.
Exactly. What "society" wants is, quite honestly, irrelevant. "Society" though it was cool to own other people at one time. Our nation is built so that we do not need to worry about what offends other people's morality, so long as we ourselves honor other people's life and liberty.
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