Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet

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No, I'm totally with you. I feel like that is exactly what is going on. We have old, stupid discriminatory rules that need to go. We also have old, non discriminatory rules that are there for good reason. You can review the reason if you want, and it's still a good reason. Any sort of law which can't treat these as separate issues is fucked, in my opinion. I would really hope that indeed it can treat them as separate, but being law illiterate I'd have to rely on others to tell me that. The efforts to show that the gender thing isn't discrimination are not in any way convincing me I'm afraid. The point of equality, surely, is to allow as much fairness and freedom as possible while keeping everybody safe and stopping harm. Allowing same genders to marry gives more freedom, and does no damage to anyone (bollocks arguments that I'm happy to dismember notwithstanding). It's not changing what marriage is even, or the people who are allowed to marry. It's simply removing a pointless rule disallowing certain combinations of eligible people. Allowing children to marry causes obvious harm, by giving "freedom" to those not deemed mature enough to use it wisely. Of course, the age minimum is arbitrary and not perfect, but it's a case of coming up with the best overall rule, and all of this has fuck all to do with age.

I mean, it's almost sounding like, "Computer says no. Even though you and I understand that a minimum age and arbitrary gender restrictions are unrelated, we must entangle them both because that's how the law works." It seems those in the legal battle who are against it are trying to manipulate the law to bring up barriers, so that they don't have to fall back on their stupid bigoted "arguments".