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Originally Posted by dabateman
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.
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It's not discrimination if the restriction applies to everyone equally. It's simply a restriction you don't like. I'd like to not pay my taxes either, but it's not discrimination that I have to pay them.
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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.
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That is true, but it's still not discrimination. Marriage also is not a "right" much like a driver's license is not a "right". If you want the restrictions changed, there is no reason not to advocate for that, but playing the discrimination card erroneous and, quite honestly, an egregious affront to circumstances of real discrimination. "Just because I want to do it" is not an argument that you are being discriminated against because you aren't allowed to do it.
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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.
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Well if that is your only argument, it is nullified by the fact that reporting age does nothing for security either. It totally voids the assertion that homosexuals are being "profiled" in a discriminatory fashion any more than they are being "profiled" when we take a census.