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To: Cogito who wrote (112418)	6/2/2009 10:36:39 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541732

I didn't miss your point, I just don't consider it very relevant to the specific narrow issue under consideration. Not having the marriage to the person you loved recognized is a different result from the identical treatment, not different treatment. (provided they are both otherwise unencumbered, meet the age requirements, etc.) If not having a marriage to the person you love recognized by the government was unequal treatment under the law, then those stipulations and others the the law puts in place, would also be unequal treatment under the law, since they would also prevent some people who love each other from marrying. But in reality since the law applies identical, neither those things, nor the non-recognition of homosexual marriage are unequal treatment. Some restrictions might be reasonable, just, fair, or generally acceptable, others might not be. That's an important distinction, but its not one of unequal treatment by the law.