Subject title should read like this:- "Why do liberals and gay rights activists say that gay marriage is similar to interracial marriage, when they are clearly not the same?"
Black people are not the same as gay people, who are not the same as disabled people and other minorities. Because two people are classed as minorities - or so-called "protected categories" under European law - doesn't mean that they are "equal" or the same.
Minorities are different and not the same. The only thing they have in common is the fact that all minorities are politically disenfranchised in a different sense to one another. But the difference is far more important than any similarities between them.
Those who are party to gay marriage or interracial marriage have been depicted as "minorities" in their own right; because each group will detract from the social norm of straight marriage between people of the same ethnicity.
However, it would do no justice at all to assume that "gay marriage and interracial marriage are fundamentally the same" since they are clearly not the same.
More importantly, one could say that they are not the same in a fundamental sense because interracial marriage is more acceptable to society than gay marriage. Whereas, a man and woman can always procreate via a natural process, gay people can only do so via deviant methods, such as artificial insemination or surrogacy (although straight couples who are unable to have children will use the same methods to procreate such people are in a small minority, and it doesn't detract from the fact such methods are still considered to be deviant or unnatural by society as a whole).
Not only is interracial marriage more acceptable to society than gay marriage, but same sex marriage is clearly inferior to heterosexual marriage, even between partners of different ethnic origin. Because minorities are different and not the same. Which implies that each minority group will occupy a different space in the social pecking order or social hierarchy; because Hispanic people are not the same as Black people, who're not the same as people of Asian descent.
Since minorities are different and not the same, it means that black people are obviously not the same as gay people, who're not the same as disabled people and other minorities.
Therefore, gay marriage is obviously inferior to straight marriage between men and women no matter what their ethnic background; because different minorities will occupy different space in the social pecking order, but it would do no justice to pretend that such difference do not exist.
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