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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (198294)8/24/2004 10:41:27 PM
From: tejek   of 1576327
 
The parts about "the freedom to marry" that are really about freedom, are the ability/right to have a relationship, to claim someone as your spouse, to live together, to have sex, to have a ceremony and call it a wedding, and maybe a few other things along those lines. All of those gay people have and should have.

Since you are choosing to nitpick, let me amend what I said.........the right to get married legally.

Asking that the public recognize and support your decisions with those freedoms isn't asking for freedom, its asking for support and approval and recognition. Now an argument could be made that gay couples should get that support and approval and recognition. Perhaps the argument would be strong enough to convince the population and the government to support such changes in traditional societal institutions. But since the argument is about support and approval and recognition those who are making it shouldn't pretend that it is about freedom.

Yes it is about freedom. By preventing gays from getting married legally, you are restricting their freedoms just as blacks had their freedoms restricted when they were forced to sit at the back of the bus. Gays are equal in every way tt the rest of society.....just as women, people of color, varying religions and other minorities are equal. That means they all get to participate in all the things available in this wonderful country of ours.

When is the right going to get it? When will they stop trying to restrict people's freedoms? And when are they going to get out of the business of intruding in people's personal lives?

I keeping asking the same questions and I get no answers from you. Why?

ted
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