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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Dec 11 2004, 01:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Dec 11 2004, 01:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Thunderball@Dec 11 2004, 01:28 AM
The reason "Adam and Steve" are lumped in with "Adam, Eve, and Steve" or "Adam and Fido" is simple... legal precedence.
If gay marriage is approved, all these yahoos have to say is, "if they get this, its discriminatory if you don't give us the same treatment."
At least with a tough fight (ie: Referendum) its gonna show that changing anything is extraordinarily difficult. Right now, its a matter of convincing a few people, not a few million.
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That's my point -- wasn't the precedence set with allowing hetero marriage in the first place? You could apply the same to logic to hetero marriage couldn't you? "If they (men and women) get this, it's discriminatory if you don't give us the same treatment"?
The wonderful thing about Canada (for me when it comes to these sorts of arguments) is that I'm not arguing against the majority. Everyone knew the Liberal party's stance on this issue but lo and behold they won again. The NDP and (I believe) the BQ are of the same opinion.
If I was against gay marriage I wouldn't be too confident about my side winning in any referendum. [/b][/quote]
In alberta I wouldn't be all that worried about the against gay marriage winning. I think they would win.