robkelk Wrote:So some people should be denied their rights until other people "get comfortable" with the idea? It isn't up to society to "get comfortable" with equal rights - it's up to society to give people equal rights even if it makes a small part of that society uncomfortable. The bigots will always find an excuse to deny equality to the people they dislike - why should we cater to the bigots?
Morganni Wrote:I think the idea is more to sneak things around the bigots, so to speak. At least where I am, it seems like the people I'd have expected to want to go for the simple solution and pass a law legalizing same-sex marriage in fact didn't think they could pull it off, or were unwilling to try. So, if the big prize is out of reach, why not go for the smaller ones?I'll grant that, if the big prize is out of reach, one should go for the smaller ones – but that's only [size=larger]if[/size] the big prize is out of reach. Too many people are reading that "if the big prize is out of reach" as "the big prize is out of reach". I think it isn't out of reach.
How does that line go, again? "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal..." That line right there brings the big prize within reach. Go for it!
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012