Bible, schmible.

Whatever fancy rationalizations you use to cover it up and sugar coat it, the fundamental impulse involved is to create a clump of "them" and dramatize the difference between "them' and "us". It might bear pointing out that doing this is in direct contradiction to Jesus' instructions about loving your brother as yourself. But the point is that dividing and pigeonholing groups of people and posing as better than some categories is all very well for social clubs, cults, and religious circle-jerks but is NOT allowable within the domain of civil law. IF equality under the law means anything at all this is surely a tesr case.

How many years must some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
And how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend
Is blowin' in the wind.
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

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