Equality depends on context and on the quality being considered. It's equal in the sense that everyone can marry someone of the opposite gender. It's wasn't equal in the sense that only some were able to marry the gender they were attracted to.
As an aside, since I can't resist: the idea that there's only one definition of equality is just absolutely hilarious as a mathematician. Even in the land of logic and numbers, we've got a zillion notions of equality.
Two sets are equal if they have the same elements. Two functions are equal if they take the same value for every input. In modular arithmetic, mod 4 we have 5 = 1.
Equality is highly context dependent.
.9999.... = 1 in real number system, but .9999.... =/= 1 in hyperreal number system.
Yes. But whether or not two things are equal depends on the property you're interested in. If you're looking at numerical value, then 1 does not equal 5. But if you're looking at whether or not they have the same remainder after you've discarded multiples of 4, then 1 and 5 are equal.
And this gets back to my point about gay marriage. The notion they're talking about when they say they didn't have equality was that they couldn't marry someone they were attracted to. Your argument is talking about a different notion, namely whether or not two people can marry someone of the same gender.
Since people can be attracted to someone of the opposite gender, these are not the same notions of equality.
If the GOP is serious about roadblocking the SCOTUS nomination sight unseen for no other reason than open partisan obstructionism, that could trigger an actual constitutional crisis. You might get some serious reform off the back of that to stop that kind of nonsense from happening in the future. And I should bloody well think so.
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Internet forums result in some strange arguments.
Conservative guy I know said he'd rather see nothing happen for 8 more years than have dems "ruin the US." He didn't make a secret of it. He also thought Obama was going to turn the US into a filthy socialist backwater. This guy is smart enough to know better. Blows my mind.
The 1,138 federal statutes that outline rights and responsibilities related to marriage vehemently disagree with you.
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The "one man, one woman" definition of marriage was never the primary definition.
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