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OT: Re: Fridays are always good for shock headlines...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Mon Jul 10 17:23:26 2006
In-Reply-To: <17586.37945.821058.666342@world.std.com>
Cc: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Derek J. Balling" <deballing@vassar.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:22:52 -0500
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 10, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> The NY State Supreme Court last week tossed gay marriage as being
> compelled by the state's constitution.
>
> One of the reasonings shot down was the assertion that there is any
> problem with discrimination because the result forbids both straights
> and gays from marrying same-sex, thus the result is non-
> discriminatory.
>
> I'll admit there may be arguments to be made on both sides but...WHEW!
The counter-argument to that is that it DOES unfairly restrict, based
on gender, the question of "who can marry a female" or "who can marry
a male".
But that topic veers widely off-topic, and any future discussion of
it should probably find a new home.
Cheers,
D
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