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Originally Posted by Gilda
Quite easily. Shared medical insurance. Hospital visitation. Legally protected rights to a relationship with children. There are roughly a thousand rights same-sex couples are denied as result. That is a whole bunch of tangible harm.
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You notice I_L hasn't touched this. His arguments aren't aimed at the people who are actually affected by this. He's grandstanding to those who--by his own argument--really shouldn't give a damn. When it comes to actually getting into the shoes of someone whose life is dramatically impacted by this particular brand of bigotry, he's notably silent.
Unlike, I'd wager, the anti-gay proponents in this thread, I actually know several gay people. I'm friends with them, including several in very stable, committed relationships. It would make a BIG difference in their lives to have the legal status that a married couple enjoys. And since I care about them, it would make a big difference in my life for them to have that.
How is my day-to-day living tangibly impacted by it (beyond the intangible impact of being happy for my friends)? Maybe not much. But given that I_L has just demonstrated that nobody's who's not personally impacted can say it makes that much difference to them, why not do the thing that's more in keeping with the spirit of what our forebears fought and died for--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for EVERY American?