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Originally posted by Carrie@Feb 25 2004, 05:05 AM
There is no law stating that gays cannot get married.
What is being fought over is the definition of the word marriage.
It has always meant "a union between a man and a woman".
So the gays aren't fighting laws, they're fighting a fucking dictionary about an historical term.
There's no law stating that I can't be a Wiccan, but I suppose since many people don't see his as a "religion", I should go raise cain in Washington and demand that it be specifically put into the Constitution that I *am* able to be Wiccan?
Pffft.
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Pffft indeed.
Yes, marriage has historically been defined as between a man and a woman.
Mental illness has historically been defined, until fairly recently, as demonic possession.
Again, until fairly recently, women historically could not vote, could not own property, and had very little protection of their own body under the law.
Until fairly recently, folks who practiced Wiccan were burned at the stake.
I could go on - but in cases like these, as well as countless others, the ignorant railed against extending equal protection under the law to those groups - and they probably cursed liberal activist judges in the process.
Gay people are not demanding a constitutional ammendment that "allows" them to get married. Gay people are simply asking for the same rights that others enjoy.