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Old 12-06-2005, 08:37 PM   #20 (permalink)
Ustwo
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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
This line of reasoning is dangerous.

They're a minority group, this law is to protect minority rights... in this case, the right to civil union.

Just because the population of the minority group is small doesn't mean that denying them fundamental rights available to everyone else outside their minority group isn't a social injustice.
I agree with your logic, but I am a bit confused.

Being the gay population is well over .015%, even by the most conservative estimates, it doesn't seem to be that important an issue to them as well, beyond symbolic.
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