The brain structure and political leaning of a person is counter intuitive

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Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

It was made legal in 2004, sort of. Partners of the same sex can have a civil partnership, which gives that couple the exact same rights and responsibilities as those who have had a civil marriage.

It's not the same name, but legally there is little or no distinction between the two.

Yeah, but that's still not really marriage.

I don't know, it's indistinguishable from marriage in a legal sense.

Yeah but not really.

I mean, what it the UK changed the Law so that from now on Muslims can't be called citizens anymore, but instead are to be called "Common Residents."

There is a lot of discrimination shown in the fact that they felt they needed a different name.  It's the same reason most pro-gay groups in the US don't agree with "Civil Unions".

WTF???!!! That is so shocking and ridiculous. NExt thing you know they'll be making them wear special clothes, so that they can be ditinguished easier from everybody else.

They aren't really doing it.  It was an example to show how two things that are exactly identical in effect aren't equal by definition because of the fact that they need a second name to show it.   The second name shows bias because one group is deemed unworthy to share the original name.

The secondary made up term becomes devalued below the original because there is no need for the term in a logical case except to exclude the group of people to whom the term applies.  Even if in theory legally they are identical.

Oh, I get it, in the post I quited you meant to say "what if". I actually thought they passed such a law over there. FTR, if they actually did that, it would be much worse than the "whole marriage vs. civil union thing", as it would be probably done especially to single out muslims from the general population (kinda like how Jews were singled out in the Middle Ages or in Nazi Germany).