Gay Marriage - are you for or against it and why?

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The flaw in judging people based on preconceived notions is that even if those notions are correct about the group they may not be correct about the individual. You are better off judging on individual merit. I don't see anything gained by considering weather the average male is stronger than the average female. Hire the strongest person regardless of gender. Or religion, or orientation, or whatever.

It matters because of a key word: efficiency. It is morbidly inefficient to analyze every tree in the forest when deciding what will make good firewood and not. Where I live there is a predominance of three species, and while every tree that comes in is different, there is a set of standard things that I can judge of each species and be right about most of the time. The alders do not make good firewood, and are not even worth the time of cutting down. The spruce will catch faster and burn faster, and so is a poor choice to stick in over the night. The birch will catch slower but will burn longer and is therefore a poor firestarter.

This is a simple view? Yes. But the view is efficient and it gets the job done well. And variants of this view apply to people.

The equality between men and women is equal rights, not equal abilities. Battles over equality in employment may have blurred that distinction a bit, but, obviously men and women are not equal in all ways.

Equal rights should not exist between all of men or all of women, let alone the two together. Treating people equally is to say that all of their differences, wether they be in achievement/talent/usefulness matters not in the eyes of the law. I disagree, if we are lacking something, the law needs to recognize this. The community is lacking teachers at the moment, and you are considering locking a teacher up as if they were anyone else? That is to ignore the problems faced by the state in favor of a blanket statement.

At least you understand that men and women are not equal in all ways