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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: J.B.C. who wrote (111986)5/26/2009 6:58:59 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 541578
 
>>Actually equality exists now. Any consenting adult male can marry a consenting adult female.<<

JBC -

Sure. That works for you.

If the law said that only consenting people of the same sex could marry, that would be the same kind of equality. Would that be OK with you?

You could also argue that laws restricting marriage between people of different races did not constitute unequal treatment under the law, because they applied equally to people of all races. Any white male could marry any white female, any black man could marry any black woman, etc.

True equal treatment requires that any consenting adult should be able to marry any other consenting adult, as long as they are both otherwise unencumbered and meet whatever the other basic requirements are.

- Allen
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