http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3097457Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-02-08 10:59 PM
Original message
Is this country ready for gay marriage?
THIS
IS
NOT
A
PRIMARY
THREAD
The next president will almost surely be a woman or a black man. That's **huge**. A black man. Or a woman.
If we're able to do that, why are we not able to have gay marriage?
Why is no one talking about this? Do you think that (anti)gay issues will not once again crop up?
And if we can have a black man or a woman president, why can't two men or two women just get married?
The key word in the above post is
almost. And we all know that close only counts in horseshoes.
Withywindle (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-02-08 11:35 PM
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13. Who cares if it's "ready"? It's long past time, regardless.
When we get bogged down in wondering if "America" is "ready" for anything, for some reason it tends to degenerate to pandering to the most reactionary common denominator.
There are people in this country still who aren't emotionally "ready" to abolish slavery. There are people in this country who aren't "ready" for the whole idea of laws being based on civil ethics and not one particular politically-influenced translation of an ancient Middle Eastern text...people who slept through the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Tough titties for them.
There are people who don't accept that Bush is president; that doesn't mean it's not true. Just like it's not true that the law is based on the Bible, or should be. Methinks this DUmmie is projecting.
B Calm (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-03-08 12:07 AM
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22. They need to hammer in the head of the right wing fringe that it's all
about PERSONAL FREEDOM!
Personal freedom only goes so far. Just because you have the right to own a gun, does that mean you can shoot me any time you feel like it? You only have rights insofar as they don't infringe upon the rights of others. That's a basic civics lesson. And when you want
your personal freedom to engage in sodomy to infringe upon
my right to attend a church that doesn't agree, and when
you want the GOVERNMENT to try and force my church to conform to YOUR personal rights, then the personal freedom fight goes out the window.