Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:07:54 -0800, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Then explain the contradictions of homo.uals being denied the marriage
> deduction and right to make legal choices for unconscious or terminally
> ill spouses.
>
>>> People are being excluded.
>> No, they are not. No queer is being denied the right to marry.
>
> You're kidding, black is not white. If marriage is only between a man and
> a woman how do two woman marry?
They don't - at least, not in California. |
