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…a right to discriminate a minority just because they want to. Shocking.

its about the definition of marriage in California, not against any people. People can go to Massachusetts to get married if they wanted to, there is no law about that.

If its not legal the will have to settle for civil unions. In fact all states should have civil unions for all people, and leave marriage to the churches.

So if John wants to marry Jane, he can do so easily right in his home state and town, with all his friends and family in attendance, etc. But if John wants to marry James, he's gotta make an expensive and time consuming journey halfway across the fucking country? A journey that's long enough to pretty much guarantee that John and James won't have much chance of having all of their friends and family in attendance at their wedding?

And you think that's fair?

What happens if every state has the same law?

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