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richa

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Jul 06, 2006 18:51

maybe i'm stupid, but after all these years, i still don't get what the legal issue with granting gay marriages is. everytime i read articles about it, it pisses me off so much. not just because i feel really bad for all the people who it effects, but because it doesn't make any sense. it hurts my brain ( Read more... )

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jrobbie July 7 2006, 18:01:01 UTC

Just because you disagree with something doesn't make it illogical.

The legal issue is that the people have voiced their opposition to allow homosexual marriages through ballot propisitions and legislative acts in 45 states now. The homosexual lobby is appealing against those voter approved, usually by very large margins, bills representing the public will. This issue is whether the public's well established preference against homosexual marriage is legal or not. That quote is saying that one part of the the legal argument for gay marriage, the part comparing it to racism, is flawed, because intitutionalized racism was ruled and unconstitutional representation of the public will only after hundreds of years of slavery, lynching, and heinous acts against the very spirit of the constitution. The debate over homosexual rights to marry doesn't even compare in scope, seriousness, or longevity.

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richa July 7 2006, 21:07:28 UTC

i wasn't claiming that anyone who disagrees with me is illogical. but that specific quotation really does not make sense to me. sure, racism has a more serious and longer history, but what does that tell us? it certainly doesn't tell us that it was only appropriate to act on it when we did. i'm sure most people now would say that slavery should've never happened, jim crow laws should've never been put into effect, etc. etc. similarly, proponents for gay marriage want to say that this is a denial of basic rights that hundreds of years from now, society will look back on and shake their head at.

of course, this is all speculation, but i don't think the analogy can be broken apart by the criteria they're using. it has to appeal to something about the kind of thing being done. why don't we (as a society) want gay people to get married? and once you actually hear the answers to the questions, it sounds awfully similar to why people didn't want interracial couples to get married. it's unnatural, or it's not good for the children, etc ( ... )