[extropy-chat] Gay marriage in Spain, a world of change

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Jul 23, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Brent Neal wrote:

> Harvey,
>
> I think Mike's point is not that it is "not discrimination," but 
> rather that it doesn't matter whether or not it is because everyone 
> should take his position against government interference in private 
> affairs.

That would be great.  if the government got out of the marriage 
business and let any two people contract their own marriages.  When he 
was arguing against gay marriage, I did not hear him also arguing 
against heterosexual marriage.

> However, as to your list of benefits, as long as there is ONE item on 
> that list, there is a problem in our government as far as I'm 
> concerned.  While I'm all for limited government, I certainly don't 
> believe right way to get there is to encourage "different amounts of 
> government" for different types of people.  Equal opportunity, equal 
> benefit, equal interference. :)

I agree totally.  This is totally about government interference 
focussed at creating different classes of citizens of people with 
different levels of recognition by the state.

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Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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