British Lawmakers Approve Gay Marriage

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...back. I see your exercise in logic and basis for argument, but it does not wash. Abuse of animals is not a relationship. There are laws against it. Those laws apply equally to the animal protector and the abuser. Just as their are laws preventing the serial killer from legally slaying humans, they apply to the rest of us. He suffers no inequality. You may as well argue that criminals suffer from inequality because the laws are against their way of life.

There being laws against it has nothing to do with the argument. There were laws against homosexuality no that long ago and now we have decided we approve of it.

The point wasn't that bestiality was good or that we did approve of it it was that it is not and we do not. Therefore we will not grant equal rights, correct?

Also, what about incest, that method of preserving the royal blood lines for thousands of years. We had decided we don't approve of that and that they will not receive equal rights as well, correct?

I assume by your previous statement that we are excluding killers from our "approved" group? What is your feeling on dissidents, approve or no?

Somehow we got off topic, which I believe justcloudy may have initiated: Why do we need the goverment to tell us who will be recognized as legally married? Nonetheless, there are laws applicable to married couples, as Dale mentioned to establish support and inheritence. Well, spousal death benefits, transfer of property and inheritence are legal rights. Employee death benefits are not recognized for domestic partners, even when one is a dependent of the other in every sense. This is a clear inequality same sex folks face.

This isn't really the topic, but it is a simplistic. The reason the government decides what it recognizes as legal marriage is because it has to make a decision.


As for inequality, you are incorrect. Currently same sex couples receive the exact same rights as single people. If you wanted true equality you would want to ban marriage laws entirely which are mostly based on the economic burden of raising a family. That is not what is sought after here, you are trying to make an additional privileged group without the economic burdens of raising a family(??!!)