Not all who oppose gay marriage, of course, take this path, and many people take their position out of true religious conviction rather than a base prejudice bled clear of love.
But, for some untold number of others, it remains a source of tremendous resentment, a kind of threat that is capable, in some, of arousing the basest prejudices.
The second of these is: "Fuller employment and the elimination of discrimination based on prejudice would contribute greatly to the independence of non-white persons, women, teenagers, and some of the aged".
"Not only is each murder a crime of passion, based on prejudice, love or jealousy," says Norton, "but a lot of them address issues – euthanasia, homosexuality, the death penalty.
Reports of crimes based on prejudice against the victim's color, religion, disability, national origin or sexual orientation rose 2percentt in 2000, the F.B.I. said.
The distinguishing feature of the described design procedure is the use of a structured design approach, which forces the designer to systematically review and compare alternative solution options, thus preventing the selection of solutions based on prejudice or belief.
"As you can imagine, publishing this paper was very tough in a climate of extreme prejudice based on second-hand information," Markram says.
There is a distinction between on the one hand being discriminating in the sense of exercising judgment to differentiate, which is legitimate and appropriate; and on the other hand being discriminatory in the sense of expressing prejudice based on irrelevant criteria, which is wrong in virtually all contexts.
"Where the customer's attitude may itself be indicative of prejudice based on one of the 'prohibited factors', such as religion, it seems to me particularly dangerous to excuse the employer from compliance with an equal treatment requirement in order to pander to that prejudice".
Or does it somehow just tarnish the institution by association — in which case I think you have a plausible argument that the fear of harm is based on prejudice towards gays and lesbians — the legally (and morally) problematic "irrational animus".
