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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  I guess the idea is that they have the equal right to marry someone of the opposite sex. Its presuming that heterosexual marriage is the only kind of marriage that has merit, which I think is wrong.
I actually voted for the third one on accident. I ment to vote for the top one. So its really 3 to 1. Sorry. | Kat beat me to the reply...
It's the same sort of argument put forth in Loving v Virginia in favor of miscegenation laws. Blacks and whites had an "equal" right to marry within their own race, but it was seen as "racial" discrimination...
Analogously, preventing gay marriage would actually be "gender" discrimination, in my view, and the court cases are typically brought up along that angle.
Analogously, miscegenation laws discriminated against people who were attracted to people of a different race, just like preventing same gender marriage discriminates against people who are attracted to the same gender.
But the BASIS of discrimination is still race / gender (respectively). "(Gay marriage) is a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish."
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