Homosexual partners are not being discriminated against. What our society currently does is discriminate in favor of heterosexual marriages.
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"We're not discriminating against blacks by making them second-class citizens, we're just discriminating in favor of white people."
"We're not discriminating against women by not letting them vote or own property, we're just discriminating in favor of men."
DISCRIMINATION IS DISCRIMINATION!
Actually, I think what he might have meant is that homosexuals can have PARTNERSHIPS, and that this is not (legally and officially) discriminated against, but that MARRIAGE is reserved for heterosexual relationships. But considering the legal perks denied and the social opprobrium involved, IT'S STILL DISCRIMINATION!
~David D.G.
Sorry gang....
And motherfucking Hitler wasn't discriminating against the Jews, blacks, Poles, gays and sympathisers; he was discriminating for an Aryan master race!
Considering Hooboy's comment was adressed to myself, I am pleased that this one got submitted, but one thing; how is he a Fundamentalist, when his profile (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/member.php?u=13081 ) says no such thing?
Hmmm.
Newton's 3rd Law of Morons:
For every description, there is an equal and opposite redescription.
I suppose I should mention the other two for completeness.
1st Law of Morons:
Every idiot in a state of uniform moronity tends to remain in that state of moronity unless an educative force is applied to it. (in any direction)
2nd Law of Morons:
The relationship between an idiot's moronity m, their asshattery a , and the applied farce F is F = ma .
In addition to this, we find that a Farce applied over a given Disdain shall be known as Wankery .
The unit of Wankery is normally an "Ugh! ".
The flow of thoughts through a moron is known as moronity in is inversely proportionate to the educational impedence. External impedence is measured in OMG s. This is the number of times someone needs to repeat, "Oh my God, I cannot believe someone can be that stupid, " before their pain subsides.
The unit of moronity from above is a Bush , derived from the biblical unit of weight, Bushel.
Standardising moronity in such a way, leads to useful units of comparative measurments, known obviously as specific densities . The densest naturally occuring moron is of course the Hovind . A Bush is only 0.1 Hovinds . It is interesting to note that this is a normal Bush . Since then, Evil Republican Scientists have developed an even denser, artificially constructed Bush , (using a program of restricted class A compounds and a phenomenal bankroll) which under carefully monitored laboratory conditions, has measured as high as 1.725 Hovinds which has amazed many observers as 0.95 Hovinds was believed to be the point where you start humping legs in public, 1.1 Hovinds was where you became incapable of understanding or operating the simplest of mechanical devices. eg 1. - eg 2. - eg 3. ; 1.2 Hovinds was where you were unable to control body movements and 1.3 Hovinds was where you even lacked simplest automatic body controls and failed the Pretzel test!
#42587 5/25/2006 7:42:01 AM
<< What? It's fundamentally true. We ascribe advantages and incentives to heterosexual marriage: legal, financial, and social. The statement is still basically logically true, without changing one iota our obligation to provide fair and equal treatment for all our citizens. >>
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That makes every bit as much (non)sense as the original quoted post. The whole point is that the system DOES DISCRIMINATE AGAINST the interests of a significant portion of our citizens, namely gays, by not permitting them the same benefits of marriage (legal, financial, and social) that their straight counterpart citizens enjoy.
The only way to make put this in terms you might understand were to say you should imagine that you could only marry someone who is absolutely impossible for you to be attracted to, whether because of sex, race, or whatever. You COULD NOT marry anyone UNLESS it was someone you WOULD NEVER marry otherwise. Can you get that in your head now?
And who the heck ARE you, anyway? Claude Rains?
~David D.G.
Tell that to the gay couples who can't walk down a street hand-in-hand without being condemned, tell that to the homoesxual who can't visit his dying partner in the hospital, tell that to the gay couples who can't adopt a child because of their sexual orientation. Ignorant moron.
What our society currently does is discriminate in favor of heterosexual marriages.
Um, if you're discriminating in favor of something, doesn't that mean you would be discriminating against something else?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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