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Thread #115854   Message #2614357
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
19-Apr-09 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
""In case you forgot, in a Democracy, the majority rules.""


ABSOLUTELY GfS!!........

I didn't forget that for a single moment.

And in the USA, the majority HAS ruled that homosexuality IS LEGAL.......With me so far?

Right then; As individuals acting within the laws set by the MAJORITY, these people are entitled to the same LEGAL rights as any other citizen. Those rights include the right to marry as they see fit, and they are victims of discrimination IN LAW if those rights are abrogated.

It HAS, I say again, NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS, but with RIGHTS UNDER THE US CONSTITUTION.

Before you start making ad hominem attacks on other posters, pehaps you should look again at your own attitudes, and prejudices.

150 years ago, people like you would not permit marriages between whites and Indians (as they were then described), and white women who had been intimate with Indians were shot dead by their relatives when they were recovered.

For the first half of the twentieth century, white people and black could not marry.

Now it's homosexuals.

Tell me, who will bear the iniquities of your prejudice in the NEXT fifty years?

Don T.