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Originally Posted by Idealogically Promiscuous
We do have equal access to the marriage institution with the same privileges and limitations (like marrying a person of the opposite gender) as every heterosexual in this country.
That's not the point. What other information is being gathered? What is the information that is gathered being used for? In context, it may not be discriminatory at all.
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And while I appreciate your argumentation, you are arguing around what you know I meant. The institution of marriage, as legally defined currently, discriminates against people who would like to enter into a legally recognized union with a person of the same gender.
Sure, I can go out tomorrow and marry any woman would want to marry me. Hell, I could even pick out an illegal immigrant and solve her situation, but that relationship isn't the embodiment of a marriage. I would have to have separate relationships. My legal relationship and the emotional relationship would not be the same. I could be legally married to a woman yet in love with a man. What good does that do me? In America, heterosexuals have the right to marry the person they love (with reasonable restriction). Homosexuals do not. We both know that to be true.
As far as the issue of information gathering, there is no security reason to gather the sexual identity of a passenger. It's irrelevant to security and I've yet to see an example of how tracking sexuality be it heterosexual or homosexual is a true security necessity.