I am not worthy, still.

This clarification was appropriate since I was explicitly criticizing equal treatment in it’s guises of equality before the law, equality of opportunity, and equality of outcome. With that correction I’m satisfied the rest of my article stands intact.

I am far more favorable to Long’s view of equality. He essentially derives the non-aggression principle from an axiom of equal authority held be to be self-evident.

How can a principle of equality under the law be applied to marriage recognition when the legal status only exists to discriminate between married people and single people, married people and their employers, married people and their insurers, and etc.?

” And imposing unjust positive claims may be wrong in your book, but it’s right in theirs and the others. ”

How can A claim to be satisfying the principle of equal treatment under the law while legally imposing positive claims against B? How are A and B being treated equally?

Nonsense. Liberty and equality mean the same thing when it comes to authoritarianism and its rejection.

“Gays are certainly victims of government aggression, we all are. The moral remedy cannot be to impose even more unjust positive claims on their behalf.”

There’s something quite wrong with putting gays on the same level as non-gays in terms of being victims of government aggression (which isn’t all the aggression there is around here). And imposing unjust positive claims may be wrong in your book, but it’s right in theirs and the others.

So I understand you’re against marriage as such, thus against gay marriage; but then until you’ve done away with straight marriage, you’d be wise not to be too assy about gays asking to be allowed to marry like straight couples.

Likewise, most an-caps continue to pay taxes. We can assume that they’ve accepted the best arguments that exist, so what has that bought them in terms of freedom? Not a whole lot, at best they’ve gotten to the point where they have a slightly better chance to manufacture or find solutions to the freedom problem for themselves.