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To: njweave
If homosexuals can't get married does that not make them as free as straights?

Ahh, but homosexuals can get married. They have the exact same rules and restrictions as heterosexuals do in terms of obligations to that legal contract. In a marriage contract, one must marry someone of the opposite sex who is not a close relative and meets his or her State's age requirements. Those rules don't change no matter what a person's sexual orientation is. One may argue that this means that homosexuals cannot marry whom they love- but the requirement of marrying someone you love is no where in the legal contract for marriage. How many strait people do that? No, there are absolutely no differences in marriage laws for homosexuals and heterosexuals, they are bound by the same legal obligations for that contract.

143 posted on 04/08/2008 12:11:09 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

wait, i dont get your explanation. are you saying that homosexuals can get married just not to another person of the same sex?


171 posted on 04/08/2008 1:10:42 PM PDT by njweave
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