Defining marriage as between a man and a woman is not discrimination. When the law is applied the same to each person, it is not discrimination, just as laws prohibiting drugs are not discriminatory against drug dealers or users of drugs. Now, there are many other arguments for or against both sides, but the law itself is not discriminatory. The law itself is blind. You could argue that the people who framed it are discriminating by trying to marginalize people in society, but the law itself is not discrimination, anymore than laws prohibiting marriage to the young or to your cousin. You must argue for or against the purpose of the law. So please, stop calling these marriage laws discriminatory. They are not.
P.S. This post is neither condemning these laws, nor confirming them, so if you are going to start a debate as to the whether those with homosexual tendencies should be allowed to marry, this is not the place. This is a statement of whether the laws themselves are discriminatory. If you have a comment about that, then by all means comment below.
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