When you start taking away people's rights, it's a cascading tide

[Pah]

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About 125 ... heterosexual New Paltz couples who married since Feb. 27 could ... be affected, according to town officials, who say they are confused and angered by the agency's stance. ... Local leaders said they found it particularly galling that the Social Security Administration failed to distinguish between the marriage documents issued for gay and straight couples, especially since the 300 or so same-sex marriage affidavits issued by Mayor West's office read and look very different from the marriage certificates issued by the town clerk.

"It doesn't make any sense," said Thomas Nyquist, an opponent of gay marriage who served as the village's mayor until Mr. West defeated him in a May 2003 election. "If they were saying they wouldn't accept marriage certificates from the village, that would be understandable because the village cannot issue them." But the town clerk, he said, already "made the decision that same-sex marriage certificates cannot be issued." The office grants marriage certificates only to heterosexual couples.

The Rev. Dawn Sangrey, a Unitarian minister who has used the affidavit system to marry more than 200 same-sex couples in New Paltz since February, said that the policy highlighted the rippling consequences of denying gay couples the right to marry. "We are all in this together, and this is so beautifully illustrated here," she said. "Who knows where this policy came from, but the fact that it's generalized illustrates that when you start taking away people's rights, it's a cascading tide."

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

I truley dislike it when homosexuals are treated different to heterosexuals, and now, I am just appalled.

 

[Yerda]

First they put away the dealers,
Keep our kids safe and off the street.
Then they put away the prostitutes,
Keep married men cloistered at home.
Then they shooed away the bums,
Then they beat and bashed the queers,
Turned away asylum-seekers,
Fed us suspicions and fears.
We didn´t raise our voice,
We didn´t make a fuss.
It´s funny there was no one left to notice
When they came for us.

Thought these lyrics might fit here. From 'Re-gainig Unconsciousness' by NOFX. A little nod to eroding of freedoms, and a bit of media demonisation.