ECSNorway Wrote:Ideally that would be the case, JFerio, but the asshats have anticipated the equal-protection-under-law argument.It's made even worse by the idea, I believe in Texas, that it should be further constrained by what your birth certificate has on it, completely excluding transgender individuals from the institution.
Their counter-argument is that every gay man has as much right to marry a woman as any straight man, and vice-versa, and they claim that that satisfies the requirements of the law.
Patently ridiculous unless you're a lawyer or judge looking for an excuse to rule in their favor, but still.
As for the fact that they're asshats, well, I'll freely admit to having a personal prejudice against organized religion. The problem being is that I'd like to get past it, but every time I make the personal effort, another one of the asshats does something that they then cloak in it, thumping their Book in the process, ("It is disrespectful," to quote G'kar), and managing to make me to consider that the prejudice is justified.
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