# House passes "repeal and replace"

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**Created:** [May 4, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-passes-repeal-and-replace/785871 "2017-05-04T20:53:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-passes-repeal-and-replace/785871/887 "2017-06-19T03:12:51Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Equal treatment is a right protected by the constitution. A law that says, “You can get married, but that guy over there cannot” violates equal protection, and runs afoul of the highest law of the land.
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> There is no argument that can be made against “gay marriage” that does not equally apply to interracial marriage. It isn’t a “new right,” it’s equal access to a right that some people had and other people didn’t. Now it’s equal, the way the constitution promises.

You cannot simply repeat “equal treatment,” as the animating principle, because you don’t favor it.

Or do you? May six year olds marry?

No? Then there has to be some further principle beyond simply “equal treatment.”

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