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[richa]

maybe i'm stupid, but after all these years, i still don't get what the legal issue with granting gay marriages is. everytime i read articles about it, it pisses me off so much. not just because i feel really bad for all the people who it effects, but because it doesn't make any sense. it hurts my brain

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[richa]

i wasn't claiming that anyone who disagrees with me is illogical. but that specific quotation really does not make sense to me. sure, racism has a more serious and longer history, but what does that tell us? it certainly doesn't tell us that it was only appropriate to act on it when we did. i'm sure most people now would say that slavery should've never happened, jim crow laws should've never been put into effect, etc. etc. similarly, proponents for gay marriage want to say that this is a denial of basic rights that hundreds of years from now, society will look back on and shake their head at.

of course, this is all speculation, but i don't think the analogy can be broken apart by the criteria they're using. it has to appeal to something about the kind of thing being done. why don't we (as a society) want gay people to get married? and once you actually hear the answers to the questions, it sounds awfully similar to why people didn't want interracial couples to get married. it's unnatural, or it's not good for the children, etc.

anyway, i realize there are certainly important differences between the group, but that was just one gripe i had with the argument against gay marriage.

how come you never talk to me anymore? :(

and yeah, practice lsats, woo. the logic games are hard bc there isn't enough time, but i like doing them.