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framed as an equal protectionmatter, i cant see how legal spaces within which the notion of equal protection is central could not recognize same sex marraiges.
what is strange is not that spain, for example, recognized same sex marriages, but rather that the americans have such trouble with it.
mostly i think because the issue was reframed by far right evangelicals on thoroughly absurd grounds--as a wedge issue, as a legitimation of homophobia, as an index of how right ideology in general works--and most importantly because framed the other way, the question of extending the benefits of the legal/secular institution of marriage to same sex couples is almost impossible to oppose.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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