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Originally Posted by timalkin
No, you have this wrong. You can marry, even if you are gay, as long as you marry someone of the opposite sex. The person that you marry can either be gay or straight or somewhere in between, as long as that person is of the opposite sex.
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Why is a homosexual marrying someone of the opposite sex even a consideration? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? It's okay for a man to be gay, but it's not okay for a gay man to marry his partner. But it's totally cool if he chooses to marry a woman instead. Everything is fine.
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You seem to be confusing sexual orientation with gender.
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No, I'm not. I'm arguing against the idea that marriage needs to be between a man and a woman, and that laws prohibiting the marriage of homosexual couples is at the very least a violation of civil rights.
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Are we talking about opinion or law? You can believe that something should be a certain way, but your opinion won't necessarily reflect the law.
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Both. It's an opinion that marriage only happens between a man and a woman. There is a law in California stating that homosexual marriages cannot be performed. I would prefer to challenge this than simply accept it as law.
Okay, let's stop fucking around: You think marriage is the exclusive realm of a man being bound to a woman and vice versa. Fine. But this is where the problem is. People disagree with you and now the constitutionality of Prop 8 is being challenged on the basis that homosexual couples aren't given equal treatment. Bottom line: they can't marry the person they love just like heterosexual couples can. That's not equal treatment.