Happy 231st Birthday, America!

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On this 231st birthday of the United States of America, I have to ask a question. What's the big deal about the following Supreme Court ruling?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/16/MNGKKJFD5U1.DTL

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[purplkat.livejournal.com]

This is slightly tangental to the subject at hand, but rather interesting.

My fiance, Sam, is Mormon. He has actually come close to convincing other Mormons who are more devout than he is that they need to support gay marriage by this train of logic:

He explains that once you tie the ability to marry in this country to religion, which is basically what you are doing when you outlaw gay marriage, since the primary objections to it are religious, you open the door for other marriage rights to be tied to religion. And not just ANY religion, because there are plenty of people of faith who have no problem with gays -- no, the de-facto state religion of a certain brand of Christianity, that protestant/methodist/baptist thing that's so common here. And any Mormon has a whole slew of stories about people of those churches telling them they're going to hell. Heck, Sam has stories of the local church actually being encouraged by their pastor to fuck with the Mormons. So if gay marriage gets outlawed, who's to say temple marriage isn't next?

It's a powerful argument down the same lines as what you're discussing. Once you open the way for some people to be victimized by the law, there's no saying for certain that other people, maybe you, won't be included.