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Gay Marriage Updates By State

Kulindahr said:
It comes down that way, yes, but the point is that whether one is a member of something by choice or not is already irrelevant for rights being protected. Those two sorts of classes are already treated as one.
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In the US, immutability grants stronger protection to certain groups that qualify. Immutability is not the only criterion, but it's a major one. For example, any law that mentions race has the burden of meeting additional standards for it be upheld. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspect_classification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny
 
andy12 said:
In the US, immutability grants stronger protection to certain groups that qualify. Immutability is not the only criterion, but it's a major one. For example, any law that mentions race has the burden of meeting additional standards for it be upheld. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspect_classification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny
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I believe Kuli's point was that immutability is not a prerequisite for that.

As religion is typically classified with strict scrutiny and it is clearly a choice.
 
New Hampshire residents want gay marriage to stay: survey

In the poll, however, more than half of the respondents, 51 percent, said they "strongly oppose" repeal, against 24 percent who strongly supported such a move.

"Strong opponents of repealing same-sex marriage outnumber strong proponents by a factor of two to one," said Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which interviewed 520 New Hampshire adults for the poll.

"Politically, this represents powerful resistance to changing the current law."

Some 29 percent said they would be "very upset" if the law were to be repealed, against just five percent who said they would be very upset if the law were to stand.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/us-gay-marriage-newhampshire-idUSTRE7185XF20110209
 
metta said:
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam/adorable-vintage-photographs-of-gay-couples
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The interesting thing about those is that many may not be gay at all. We've had a culture shift in the direction of homophobia, that has included a shift in how affectionate interaction is viewed. I once read a history of the Maginot Line, and learned that the French soldiers in the fortresses sunbathed nude to counter the fact that they were underground so much, and that wrestling and other horseplay were common -- with nothing gay about it.

Now... wearing a Speedo can get you accused of being gay.

Personally, I'd rather jettison the Speedo and swim in what God gave me -- which was the attitude of my grand- and great-grandparents.

And in other cultures today, guys hold hands and such, with nothing gay about it.

Wouldn't a culture be nice where people could do all these things, and no one would immediately assume, one way or another?
 
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