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6/16/2025, 9:14:44 AM
deep down, you know he’s right about them
6/15/2025, 10:09:08 PM
>Why i voted against "gay" marriage.
>Let's start by admitting that discrimination (properly defined) is pervasive and totally accepted. Western society discriminates against many categories of people: mentally insane people (who are denied almost all civil rights based on a very arbitrary and ever-shifting definition of "mental illness"); physically handicapped people (who can be legally denied many jobs); convicts (two million citizens of the USA who are denied most civil rights, including the right to walk in a park); sick people (who are denied, for example, the right to adopt and sometimes even the right to travel); less educated people (who never have the same chance in life as higher educated people); last but not least, singles (who don't have the same rights as people who are married, from tax deductions to adoption). It is likely that all of these categories would like to have more rights than they have today. Then one could add soccer fans, who don't get as many fields as baseball fans, and listeners of avantgarde music, who don't get as many concerts as pop music fans, and so forth and so forth and so forth. You can come up with an infinite list of "minorities" that are discriminated because they are a minority.
So the argument that we should not "discriminate" against gay marriage calls for the opposite question: why is it anathema to raise issues about gay marriage when it is ok to have all sorts of discriminations against all sorts of categories?
>Let's start by admitting that discrimination (properly defined) is pervasive and totally accepted. Western society discriminates against many categories of people: mentally insane people (who are denied almost all civil rights based on a very arbitrary and ever-shifting definition of "mental illness"); physically handicapped people (who can be legally denied many jobs); convicts (two million citizens of the USA who are denied most civil rights, including the right to walk in a park); sick people (who are denied, for example, the right to adopt and sometimes even the right to travel); less educated people (who never have the same chance in life as higher educated people); last but not least, singles (who don't have the same rights as people who are married, from tax deductions to adoption). It is likely that all of these categories would like to have more rights than they have today. Then one could add soccer fans, who don't get as many fields as baseball fans, and listeners of avantgarde music, who don't get as many concerts as pop music fans, and so forth and so forth and so forth. You can come up with an infinite list of "minorities" that are discriminated because they are a minority.
So the argument that we should not "discriminate" against gay marriage calls for the opposite question: why is it anathema to raise issues about gay marriage when it is ok to have all sorts of discriminations against all sorts of categories?
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