Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by hackuser on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:36AM
(#9785236)
12 year olds, and brothers and sisters, are not oppressed minorities facing a long history of brutal discrimination.
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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by MBlume on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:58AM
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>12 year olds [...] are not oppressed minorities facing a long history of brutal discrimination.
No, they absolutely are -- not in a way that really bears on whether they should get married, but seriously, have you been 12? Ever spent five minutes inside a Jr. High?
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by mgkimsal on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:37PM
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Being 12 is not a permanent condition, while generally race and sexuality are. While being 12 is not a choice - it's forced on most people - they also generally stop being 12, usually within a year or so of the condition.
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by stevenspasbo on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:15PM
(#9788486)
When started being 12 when I was 10, and it lasted until I was 14 :(
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by task_queue on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:01PM
(#9786079)
A child labor analogy would have worked better IMO
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by chralieboy on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:52AM
(#9785428)
The opinion very specifically did _not_ provided any protected status to gays and lesbians.
Persecution had nothing to do with it.
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
by DanBC on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:31PM
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http://rt.com/news/185256-us-unicef-children-homicide/
> The US leads Western nations in child homicide rates, while millions of children around the world are threatened with physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including murder, rape and bullying, a new UNICEF report revealed
I dunno, sounds pretty brutal to me.