Gabriel Arana
January 26th, 2009
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QuoteI wanted to dedicate a series of posts (five in total) to crazy anti-gay arguments and encourage BTB's readers to respond to and engage them below.
Quote#1: Any man — even a gay one — can marry a woman. Therefore, it is not discriminatory to deny marriage rights to members of the same sex given that a straight man can't marry a man, either.
What irritates me about this is that it very obviously misses the point and tries to win the argument on a technicality: "Aha! The law treats everyone the same — I can't marry someone of the same sex and neither can you." Underlying the argument is a very amateur understanding of what it means for the law to "treat everyone the same."