Originally posted by Davo:



I can't get into the 2nd grade at the elementary school down the street. I can't collect Social Security payments. I can't rent a car from Enterprise. I can't run for Senator. Sounds like age discrimination to me.

I can't get into Curves, a health club only for women. Birth control isn't covered by my insurance. Planned Parenthood doesn't give a [censored] about males. Sounds like sex discrimination to me.

I won't get into college if the university at which I'm applying needs to fill it's racial quotas, and there are black people less qualified than me that also want to get in. I don't get respect on the basketball court because of my color. Sounds like race discrimination to me.

Discrimination is acceptable if placed in proper context (I don't consider AA acceptable -- I'll leave it at that). Sometimes, it just makes sense. If you consider the preservation of the most basic and ancient human social construct to be discrimination, so be it. I don't. I consider it common sense.



You are right, context means a lot. In the case of many of the examples you have cited, you are dealing with private groups that do have a right to "refuse service to anyone".

However, to not allow homosexuals the privilege of putting on the old ball and chain, we as a society are relegating them to second hand citizen status.

People keep on telling me that marriage is traditionally only referring to a union between a man and a women. What does tradition have to do with it? Polygamy is an instution slightly less old than monogamous marriage (if the Bible is your only timeline) and I do not see the "traditionalists" crying to have it legally instated. In fact, most of them would be outraged if it returned to America in a legally acceptable form.

P.S. Race quotas suck and if you get no respect on the basketball court, try getting SKILLS first.

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