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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 24-Aug-2010 At 11:58:51 AM gordoste

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Regarding the post ... it IS discriminatory and therefore you need to provide a good reason to keep it that way, not the other way around. How would changing it actually impact people who are already married? If you seriously think it doesn't make any difference to restrict who can get married, how would you like it if it was restricted to Christians? To argue that it makes no difference is to be wilfully blind.
This is what the recent case in California came down to - the deciding judge, who previously was viewed as conservative, could not find any evidence of adverse impact to people who are currently married or to the wider community, so he threw out the law (which was passed by 52% of Californian voters in a referendum). Now he is being attacked by the conservatives as a traitor.
The same standard applies to things like womens-only fitness clubs. There is a demonstrable benefit in that discrimination and therefore it is permitted.