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Old 05-08-2008, 01:58 PM
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I don't really care for the argument to begin with. Let's say someone really loves broccoli, it's their favorite food... were they born predisposed to love broccoli? Did they consciously choose to love broccoli? Perhaps was it something subconscious or life experience that made them come to love it, but with intense therapy the broccoli haters might be able to convert you into a broccoli hating carrot lover. Do the broccoli hating carrot lovers have a right to ostracize the broccoli lovers and create special rights and institutions for the carrot lovers, all in the name broccoli eaters being gross and abnormal to them? Since a broccoli lover obviously does not fit the "definition" of a broccoli hater, is it therefore a legitimate argument to say broccoli lovers shouldn’t get equal rights and institutions as the broccoli hating carrot lovers?

In the lifetimes of many people still alive, there was a day when a black person marrying a white person didn't fit the "definition" of marriage and was considered gross, deviant and unnatural. Yet the same argument existed that they had an equal right as everyone else to "choose" to marry someone else of the same race. Who we marry is a choice and I'm tired of people saying they can restrict who other people can marry just because it is a "choice". As with interracial marriage, we've been down this road before.
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