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O dyskryminacji par jednopłciowych
Discrimination against same-sex couples

Author(s): Krzysztof Saja
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: discrimination; homosexuality; same-sex couples; marriage; justice; human rights

Summary/Abstract: In my paper I discuss the argument that the absence of the legal possibility to contract same-sex marriages is discriminatory. I argue that there is no analogy between the legal situation of same-sex couples and African-Americans, women or disabled persons in the nineteenth century. There are important natural differences between same-sex and different-sex couples that are good reasons for the legal disparities between them. The probability of having and raising children is one of them. Therefore, demanding that same-sex couples have rights similar to those that married couples currently have in Poland and justifying that claim by alleged discrimination is neither correct nor fair.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 92-115
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish