Zephie wrote:Supercool and Awesome wrote:Buffett and Colbert wrote:Jusela wrote:No one is denying your rights. Homosexual people have the exact same rights as heterosexual people have.
If the situation were switched, I doubt you'd be saying this. The right to marry is fundamental, and is recognised by the Constitution.
The right to marry. Not the right to marry straight people. But the right to marry, period.
Their point is that homosexual people can still get married, just not to the person they love. Allegedly claiming that since they can still get married to someone of the opposite sex, they aren't losing any rights. But it's still discriminatory. It's like black people being allowed to sit in the back of the bus, but not the front. They still get to ride the bus, but that's not wrong with it. What's wrong is that they can't sit wherever they want on the damn thing.
No, it's not like that.
I'm afraid it largely is. Where one group is unfairly singled out to be prohibited from doing what everyone else can, it's very much like that.