02-19-2004, 09:56 AM
MATTHEWDMETCALF Wrote:According the the case of Plessy vs. Furgeson, you actually can. But, you'd have to give gay people something of a equivalence of marraige. (How did I remember that from 8th grade SS?)
You're living in the past. The Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling was overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. The Supreme Court declared that whites couldn't just give blacks second-rate civil services and call it equal. And anyway, the conservatives want a constitutional amendment that would not even give gay couples the option of a civil union, so they can't say that they're offering gays an equivalent.