Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   If the law allows same-sex marriage, the law applies to everybody
> > equally, and that's how it should be. It makes no distinction.

> But the point is that the heterosexual men will never take advantage of that 
> law. Passing that law (where it was disallowed earlier) is a boon to 
> homosexuals and not to heterosexuals. Passing a law that denies same-sex 
> marriages denies them equally to those who want them and those who don't.

  That's as ridiculous as claiming that forbidding women's suffrage applies
equally to all people, and hence it's fair.

> >   That would be a blatantly contradictory law. It's saying "employers
> > must not take ethnicity into account, but employers must take ethnicity
> > into account".

> More like "employers must not take ethnicity into account, and the 
> presumption is that if minorities aren't hired in approximately the same 
> ratio as they apply, the employers are probably discriminating illegally."

  A perfect example of a false dichotomy.

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                                                          - Warp

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