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Originally Posted by troutman
So women and minorities aren't entitled to equal rights, because they didn't have them before?  |
Sure women and minorities have equal rights.
What you want is a certain relationship to have special privileges. Marriage between a man and a women has been a relationship governments have deemed worthy of protecting and fostering. It long ago was defined and separated for special treatment.
Today the LGBT community is demanding that same special distinction and the privileges that come with it for a relationship between two men or two women.
They aren't speaking for poligamists who would like that same distinction with its privileges or the many nonsexual patnerships we find in society. They are speaking for themselves.
I'm not in favour of any of it. I like Chick-Fil-A have a right to view marriage as our society has always viewed it; between a man and a women. Moreover Tim Thomas, Chick-Fil-A, and this Christian lobby group has a right to express those views without being bullied or shot at.