Jeff,
I'm glad you agree that a group of two or more persons of the same gender (or who are transgendered) ought to face no more government obstacles to legally marrying each other than a man and a woman. But what has Uncle Tom's cabin got to do with it?
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There should be no government forms, facilities, or licensing of
marriage or any other voluntary, peaceful, non-fraudulent
activity. Government can't discriminate with what it does not
control. Whatever it controls can be regulated, restricted and
removed. Think outside Uncle Tom's cabin.
Who said anything about "special privileges?" That is the code-phrase
that right-wingers typically use any time an argument of equal rights
for sexual minorities comes up, since they can't muster any real
argument against all adult human beings having equal rights under the
law.
Indeed you are right that government should not recognize or
discriminate against any persons. This means no restricting marriage to
certain combinations of persons, no race, gender, or sexual preference
check boxes on forms, and no government facilities segregated on the
basis of gender. Especially when government is trying to force someone
to identify with a gender which is not the individual's gender of
choice.
As the Advocates for Self-government might put it: Who should decide
which gender you belong to, you or the government?