clouddreamer wrote:
> 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.
Yes, they do.
> People are being excluded.
No, they are not. No queer is being denied the right to marry. |
