At 11:16 PM 11/8/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >> Therfore, I do feel quite comfortable in saying that the comparison >> doesn't hold. After all, nobody here says "I'm personally opposed to >> killing >> gays, but I don't want to impose my morality on other people by voting to >> make killing gays illegal." > >I see how you rationalize it John, but it doesn't hold water with me.
But, it is also worth noting that we have never permitted any two people to marry. For example, we don't permit brother and sister to marry, or father and daughter, or mother and son. So again, its not like we are permitting heteros to do something that gays cannot - everyone is bound by the same restriction. Furthermore, many of the benefits of marriage can be achieved through other legal means. Thus, the debate becomes not that these benefits are being denied outright, but that these benefits are made more easily available to one sort of relationshipw which society has chosen to favor. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
