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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by throwaway-hn123 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:52AM (#12977402)
Why extend marriage rights to the class of people who are infertile? I don't get why you're giving that class of people special privileges.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by throwanem on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:06AM (#12977514)
I'm looking to find a balance between the interests of the state and those of its individual citizens. In a heterogeneous society, which all societies to some extent are, this is a complex question. To oversimplify it benefits no one.

And do you really want to equate homosexuality and infertility, which for all intents and purposes is a medical disorder? Is that where you want this conversation to go? It's not where I want this conversation to go. My sexuality is not a medical disorder.

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by throwaway-hn123 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:00AM (#12977946)
All I'm doing is examining the inconsistencies in your position. You seem to think the ability to reproduce is important, except for heterosexual couples, where it doesn't matter.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by tanderson92 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:39AM (#12977784)
I don't believe the intent was to call your sexuality a disorder, it was to demonstrate the dangers of applying rights by class instead of universally.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by throwanem on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:50AM (#12977864)
There's a difference between applying rights and inventing them. The latter is certainly worth doing when it's warranted, but it also strikes me as worth setting a very high standard for doing so, because in a state constituted as ours is, to create a new right instantly overrides broad swaths of existing law and precedent. Such potentially dangerous actions should not be contemplated except in a case where their absence perpetuates a harm so grievous and unjust that nothing less will do.

As I've argued at length in this thread and the comments I've linked therein, I don't think it's reasonable to consider that standard met here.