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Originally posted by Spiramirabilis
it's not over 'til it's over
Let's just say your answers to my questions do not surprise me.
Ask JC Penney to replace Ellen Degeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war.
I just spent a good chunk of time reading on the NOM website - and then on websites directly related to that site, then reading up on Jim Crow legislation, miscegenation laws, the definition of marriage, the definition of kinship...all I have to say about that is - I couldn't stop giggling. I'm surprised they got as far as they did - but I think it's just a matter of time - it is a civil rights issue - and these things have a way of making us look back on the past and wonder what the hell we could have been thinking
The simple fact of the matter is - one side wants equal rights for everyone - and the other wants special rights upheld only for themselves
hate or no hate - NOM and their Moms are on the wrong side of this argument
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by Annee
Father's Day and Mother's Day? Those holidays are both always celebrated on weekends. What has that to do with school curriculum? Independence Day? You are welcome to move to Cuba if you feel that is antisocial.
Not when I went to school in the 50s. Mother and Father's day was celebrated in school.
Sorry that you can't understand the concepts are the same.
I live here - - and I like the way our society is going. You're the one who might be happier some place else.
Originally posted by kaylaluv
We DO have laws against discrimination, however. The Civil Rights Act was not about making the black segment of our society "special" - it was about eliminating discrimination. You discriminate against someone by not treating them the same as everyone else, by not allowing them the same rights as everyone else - in other words - inequality. See how it works?
Originally posted by peck420
Originally posted by kaylaluv
We DO have laws against discrimination, however. The Civil Rights Act was not about making the black segment of our society "special" - it was about eliminating discrimination. You discriminate against someone by not treating them the same as everyone else, by not allowing them the same rights as everyone else - in other words - inequality. See how it works?
Nope, don't see it.
Unless you can show me the laws that allowed discrimination?
The problem is that new laws were never required, only equal application of existing laws.
Now we have a situation, this is just for example, where it is worse to attack a homosexual than a none homosexual ('hate crimes'). Thereby, homosexuals (and any other 'protected group') have been deemed more valuable than the rest by the very nature of having special laws to protect them.
This will be just as bad in the future as it was in the past, simply because nobody can figure out that the best 'anti-discrimination' policy is the removing of all labels/titles/etc from our existing laws.
They should all protect all equally, not some for this group, some for that group.
We will never have 'equality' when one side gets to dictate the 'thoughts' of the other side. That pretty much rules out every 'equality' and 'inequality' pushing groups in the world. It is a technical impossibility to write 'equality' in law as, by giving a group or person special status (ironically, to make them 'equal'), they are no longer equal to the others. The only true 'equality' in law, is the absence of differentiating labels/titles/etc. Until that gets figured out, don't expect this sort of thing to go away.
Originally posted by manna2
Government has no business at all in the business of marriage.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
I was happier when it was less like Communist Cuba.
They should all protect all equally, not some for this group, some for that group.
Originally posted by sweetliberty
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
When things go over other posters heads, you should just ignore their ignorance... unless they actually understand but can't handle it when you hit it out of the park...
Regardless, we must learn to love those who barely survive on their tunnel vision.
Thanks for adding those vid's, I'm almost finished watching them.
It's so simple, no one can see it. May I ask, (subjectively) which one is which?
Acceptance of differences is a good thing and a human thing - - that is best introduced at the youngest of ages. Introducing it in the primary school environment is only logical - - - and necessary to counteract parents like those of NOM and AFA.