"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1163539109.157714.99560
@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Let's try a rather elaborately silly example to illustrate my point:
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Your example doesn't work. I don't think gay couples are asking to have the
right to have sex in public.

A better example might be if people who don't wash their hands after they pee
were to ask for the same right to eat in the Fancy Restaurant as those who do
wash their hands after they pee. I have been to plenty of fancy restaurants
and observed people who didn't wash their hands after they peed, and yet they
were not asked to leave the restaurant for their actions, even when there was
a valet in the bathroom as a witness. Personally, I prefer not to eat food
with pee-covered hands, but I certainly don't believe it's my responsibility
to try to prevent other people from eating their own pee if they so choose.
My wife, on the other hand, is more conservative, and finds such action
EXTREMELY disgusting. She would probably look to have someone who didn't wash
his or her hands after peeing ejected from the restaurant.

Nonetheless, the non-hand-washing-after-peeing members of society have not
been refused service for their actions, because those actions are performed
in private.