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solarbird ([personal profile] solarbird) wrote 2009-05-27 12:58 am (UTC)

No, but it's fortunate that we're not talking about upper body strength, aggression, pain tolerance, or total muscle mass. We're talking about the context you brought up - public support for laws against marriage. In both cases, you had public opposition to the marriages in question - in fact, public opposition to same-sex marriage at this point is lower than public opposition to interracial marriage at the time of Loving v. Virginia. If you go back in time and look at the debates regarding interracial marriage, they were exactly the same as arguments against same-sex marriage, including arguments that such unions couldn't produce "valid" children - or, in some particularly hyperbolic cases, children at all. Should public opinion have overridden the court decision in that case, as it did here?

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