Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0800, Emerson Wainwright wrote:
>
>> On Nov 9, 6:22 pm, strabo 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. People are being
>>>> excluded.
>>> There are males and there are females.
>> Are there also homo.uals and hetero.uals?
>>
>>> Both are treated equally under
>>> the law.
>> Are the homo.uals being treated as equals to the hetero.uals?
>
> No, they aren't
Yes, they most certainly are. |