fish82 wrote:

Apple wrote: The article says he voted the way he did on the gay issues because it was the way his constituents wanted him to vote.

i.e. he did his job. Madness, I tell you!

For all the bad publicity he's getting, that's actually a breath of fresh air.

futbol4ever wrote: Gays have the same right as straights. Any gay man can marry a woman, just like any straight man. Any gay woman cam marry a man, just like any straight woman. They don't want the same rights. They want their own rights.

You're right up until the last couple sentences. Both gay men and straight men have the same legal rights. Same with gay and straight women.

HOWEVER ...

It is still discrimination. It's not orientation-based discrimination. It's gender discrimination.

Any consenting woman of sound mind and legal age can marry my neighbor (a man in his late 40s). They have that right.

However, that is a right that I do no have, and the reason I don't have it is based solely on my gender. She can marry him because she is a woman. I cannot marry him because I am a man.

Thus, it is still discriminatory to prevent same-sex marriages, because it bases the restrictions of who one might marry on gender ... which is a protected class.

Perhaps we should hold off on tossing all hypocrites out of Congress. There wouldn't be enough people left for a quorum. Perhaps there should be a law against hypocrites being allowed to vote in the first place.