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Gay Rights: A Question of Fairness

John Draeger considers pairing and parenting; discomfort and discrimination.

The sight of two men walking hand in hand down the street is still likely to raise a few eyebrows. In the minds of many people, same-sex relationships are abnormal, unnatural, just plain gross. This may be understandable given the way most of us have been raised, but discomfort doesn’t justify discrimination. In ‘Lawrence v. Texas’ (2003), for example, the U.

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