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A lot of right wing hate today has annoyed me. I'm not really trying to please you, sorry.
It is ok... I apologize for getting a little heated
I am quite proud to be among the large number that has recently migrated to the Houston area and college before. We are seeing lots of progress in the city areas toward this issue. The smaller tons and some suburbs are still a different story though unfortunately. Of course there is lots of work to be done, but hopefully it will continue getting better towards more tolerance.
It wouldn't be a pro-homosexual argument if it didn't include some reference to black people and civil rights would it? You guys just don't know how to refrain do you?
As I've mentioned more than once on this board, there's little difference between gays fighting for equal marriage rights, women fighting for equal voting rights, and blacks fighting for equal civil rights. It all adds up to an oppressed minority group fighting for rights the majority are withholding from them.
Signed,
A black woman whose rights were won by fighters and is fighting to attain rights for others
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For every "liberals are smarter" link you can produce, I can produce the converse for conservatism. A new thread on this subject pops up every other week. Its like volleyball....one day the argument is on this side of the court, the next day the other side. Your link means nothing.
Sweet dreams!
Oh, I know. That's why I knew you would like it!
By the way, you've started to repeat yourself on this thread:
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I'm jazzed about this outcome for another reason: North Carolina is a swing state, and this proves that conservatives are by and large paying attention this election season. Of all years to get conservatives' attention, 2012 is the year to do it in. Leave it to gay marriage to generate that attention. I'm sure voting today felt very good to them......perhaps it will be a feeling they will be eager to relive in November in the pursuit to oust Barack Obama. I think what we've seen here tonight in NC is the opening salvo to what is to be a red state again in November.
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Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC
I'm jazzed about this outcome for another reason: North Carolina is a swing state, and this proves that conservatives are by and large paying attention this election season. Of all years to get conservatives' attention, 2012 is the year to do it in. Leave it to gay marriage to generate that attention. I'm sure voting today felt very good to them......perhaps it will be a feeling they will be eager to relive in November in the pursuit to oust Barack Obama. I think what we've seen here tonight in NC is the opening salvo to what is to be a red state again in November.
And well-educated parts of the state voted for the amendment. What kind of statement is that. Our state educates everybody in the state, not just certain areas. I don't think anybody voted strongly against the amendment. Some areas that have a lot of newcomers to the state voted againnst the amendment by a small margin. Check the figures. We haven't been brainwashed here in North Carolina yet. We still understand the difference between living right and living wrong and we voted accordingly.
We keep hearing this “it’s only a matter of time” fantasy mantra over and over again yet the facts remain to the contrary and actually support the opposite position. It isn’t happening.
A 61-39 vote in North Carolina just six years later represents a roughly 20 point shift in favor of marriage equality. But feel free to keep saying to yourself that marriage equality will never catch on, despite the documented trends nationwide, and in particular among younger voters.
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If 31 states had voted your way to redefine marriage by a substantial margin then your claim might have some validity but they did not and the claim that “it’s only a matter of time” is empty, invalid, and pure hokum.
Your smiley after that post reads as bragging that you've "won" a popular vote today. I'll repeat again that someday you will be viewed in the same way we look at segregationists today. You will be an embarrassing incident of American history of the sort of people who oppose social progress and basic civil rights.
Doesn't minority rights trump majority rules. Why should the rights of a subsection of Americans be decided through a popular vote? Why do conservatives support this? Doesn't this counter their supposed ideals?
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