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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (1617)	1/19/2001 1:21:12 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

There is something inherently unfair about a system which permits this kind of discrimination but outlaws discrimination against someone based on who they have sex with. Yes, I agree that it's unfair to discriminate against people because of the gender of their sex partners. But I don't think that's what you meant. <g> I'm sympathetic to the inequity in the specific example you mentioned. But I don't think it's reasonable to generalize too much from that one law. You talk about the system being inherently unfair. Well, the legal system is not the orderly thing we imagine when the word, system, is used. The legal system develops in fits and starts. It overdoes here and underdoes there. Someone gets a leg up on someone else. Then there's a rebalancing of some part. Which throws everything out of whack and requires further rebalancing. At any given point in time there will be some inequities. Over time, hopefully, things sort themselves out. I used to be fearful of slippery slopes. If we were headed in what I considered the wrong direction I saw doom on the horizon. But I'm old enough now to realize that things shift back and forth and side to side. The gay thing will find some equilibrium sooner or later. Right now that particular rebalancing is at an early stage and things are bound to be clumsy. I know that's probably not much consolation to landlords and prospective unmarried heterosexual tenants in your state. Karen