On 25 Feb 2004, at 12:48 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <I snipped the atribution of the statement below by accident - I think it was Jon, though>Who believes that the Constitution is MEANT to beinterpreted.
Exactly. Doug
Well, I mean look, it's not intuitively obvious that the Equal Protection Clause is meant to include gay marriage.
Not to your intuition. It is to others. What use or relevance has intuition to an important subject? Intuition is just a way of saying 'my gut feeling which I cannot rationally justify'.
It might be fair to interpret that way, but it's at least possible to argue plausibly that it doesn't.
Perhaps you could find one of these plausible arguments then so we can see it, because I haven't seen one yet...
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