{"id":485,"date":"2003-12-11T04:27:14","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/11\/slippery-slopes-and-gay-marriage\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T12:27:14","slug":"slippery-slopes-and-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Slippery slopes and gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Rosenberg’s response<\/a> to the “gay marriage will make it impossible to outlaw group marriage” argument, from MarriageDebate.com, deserves to be widely read:<\/p>\n

Let us examine precisely what a person denied entry into such a “group marriage” would be arguing before the court. Unlike Goodridge<\/i>, where a woman was asking to be treated the same as if she were a man, this new hypothetical would ask the court to treat a group of two (or more) people as if they were an individual. The suit would fail because, as all seven justices in Massachusetts noted, “constitutional protections are extended to individuals, not couples.”<\/p>\n

Consider the following example. Ella wants to run for governor, but the state refuses to allow her on the ballot because she is a woman. She sues on equal protection grounds. The state argues that “governor” is by definition a male (a female would be “governess”). The state points out that the governor has always been a man and there are numerous statutes like “he shall be elected…” The court rules for Ella and changes the definition of governor to be gender neutral. Sometime later Ben and Jerry seek to run for governor jointly as one candidate. Like Ella they are refused and sue to gain ballot access. Did the Ella decision lead us on a slippery slope to co-governors?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gabriel Rosenberg’s response to the “gay marriage will make it impossible to outlaw group marriage” argument, from MarriageDebate.com, deserves to be widely read: Let us examine precisely what a person denied entry into such a “group marriage” would be arguing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}