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Originally Posted by dippin
I am sorry, but this is just nonsense.
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I don't see how.
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So banning gay marriage is not discriminatory because they still have the right to marry people of the opposite sex? Are you seriously trying to make this argument?
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No, it's not discriminatory because no one, gay, straight or otherwise, has the ability to enter into a same-sex marriage. It's not inherently discriminatory against gays.
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Following your line of thinking, banning inter racial marriage is not discriminatory either, since everyone can still get married...
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The ability to marry a person of the opposite gender, which was available to some, was withheld from others. It'd be the same as if some of the population were allowed to enter into a same-sex marriage while another segment of the population was not for no justifiable reason.
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And I've yet to understand how same sex marriage leads to polygamy. Especially considering that most polygamous relationships are heterosexual in nature. Maybe we should outlaw straight marriage.
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Because if the courts deem that the gender of the person being married is arbitrary in deciding if two persons can be wed, then there is no basis under which they could logically claim that limiting marriage to two persons is any less arbitrary than limiting marriage to three, four or even five persons.