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Originally Posted by August
I'm not denying them anything.
You tell me the practical differences between marriage and civil unions and how the latter equals riding in the back of the monogamy bus and maybe you'll have a point, but until then it's just another misapplication of a tired analogy.
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There doesn't need to be a practical difference for it to be unequal. If you're tired of everyone saying your "separate but equal" argument is inherently unequal, perhaps you should re-think it instead of stubbornly clinging to it.
To look at it from the other side, the only way I can see that it would possibly not apply is that sexual orientation is not a suspect classification under federal law...it'd be hard to draw a direct parallel from a case regarding race (Brown v. BOE or Loving vs. Virginia) which is a protected class, to sexual orientation, which isn't. As soon as the courts recognize sexual orientation as a protected suspect class, you'll see the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage in short order.