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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1127)8/22/2006 1:36:41 AM
From: epicureRead Replies (2) of 1695
 
Only because the supreme court has not declared it a fundamental right. But I think they could easily do that, and a different court probably would do that. And they could easily declare gay people to be a protected class. I think gays should be a protected class and marriage should be defined as a fundamental right.

I agree with this judge:

seattletimes.nwsource.com

I understand that people want to keep gays out of marriage, but I don't approve. I think discrimination is wrong except in cases where a really decent argument can be made in favor of the discrimination. It needs to be a better argument than "We've always discriminated", or "Their marrying makes us uncomfortable", or "It's against my religion", or "The majority wants to discriminate."

I wouldn't approve of any of those reasons if they were applied to bar disabled people from marrying, or any ethnic minority, or sterile people, or people with genetic problems that might be passed on to their children, or any other adult subgroup I can think of. Discrimination is almost always per se wrong. For me it takes a great deal of evidence to overcome the presumption against discrimination- when the government is involved, as it is here.
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