Oh very convenient considering gay marriage is the only example you've been able to come up with. You're missing the point... I'm drawing a distinction between acceptable and unacceptable forms of discrimination. Genuinely intolerable forms of prejudice such as racial discrimination for example are equally intolerable in any situation. If discrimination is acceptable in private it ought to be acceptable in public - the State can butt out.


I don't see why fairness and consideration for others has to be limited to one situation when it could be more generally applied. In your second-rate "Dancing with the Stars" competition for example dance partners have to be one man and one woman. Everyone would walk out if it were otherwise. Justification for the rule in dance is founded in art and culture and doesn't suddenly go away just because the State starts interfering or organising dogmatic public dance competitions open to same-sex partners.


Such as?

km

Hale Britannia!

Discrimination-treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.

So this is acceptable when?

Do you know him?

More km-projection. "Second rate"compared to what? Not that I would call this show or others like it a paragon of entertainment and art, but second rate compared to what — a British version?

And regarding the "rules" that you have generously written for DWTS: chew on this! Only you would walk out — assuming you'd be let in in the first place.

Does it matter? As it turned out the illiteracy was that of the reporter.

km

Discrimination? It's acceptable when there's a good reason for it and unacceptable when there's not.

km

That was interesting, I'll give you that... but It'll never catch on in my opinion.

It was Brian Fortuna who said DWTS was second-rate and he's danced in both.

km

So, again I ask, when is there a good reason to discriminate;in what situation does all else trump individual merit?

I'm thinking!

I'm thinking!