Rudy Canoza wrote:
> Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:52:30 +0000, Californians With Common Sense wrote:
>>
>> Proposition 8 is irrelevant. No law trumps the 14th Amendment.
>
> No one suggests it does. The Equal Protection clause is not being
> violated. The state may set the rules for, and define, marriage. As
> long as those rules apply equally to everyone, regardless of any
> self-imagined membership in some class, no equal protection violation
> occurs.
But those rules do not apply equally to everyone. People are being excluded.
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