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Interracially Married Couples Insulted By Comparison of Their Relationships to Gay Marriage
February 20, 2004
| ComtedeMaistre
Posted on 02/20/2004 2:32:42 PM PST by ComtedeMaistre
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To: right-left
Welcome to Freerepub... oh nevermind...
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:50:11 PM PST
by
expatguy
To: ComtedeMaistre
The Bible certainly makes no comparison.
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:51:35 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: right-left
bless your heart dearie
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:51:50 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: right-left
>>I think in a decade or two people will look back on this as an historic time like we look back on the legalization of interracial marriage in 1967<<
Interracial marriage was legal in most Northern states before 1967. And the legalization of such marriages was brought about by state legislatures.
But such marriages were illegal in 16 Southern states. However, after the 1964 civil rights act, most Americans did not feel that such prohibitions on intermarriage served a legitimate purpose. This new national consensus on race that was reached in the 1960s, influenced the 1967 Loving V. Virginia Supreme Court ruling. Such a national consensus has not been reached with regard to gay relationships.
It may surprise you, that interracial marriages were legal in some parts of this country for centuries. Whites and Native Americans have been intermarrying since the time of Pocahanthus. The black abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, who lived in the nineteenth century, was legally interracially married, and he served for a time as an American diplomat in San Domingo. There are even legal (though rare) black/white marriages that took place in colonial America (before 1776).
Therefore, the concept of black/white marriage was not unheard of, before 1967. There were only regional restrictions on such relationships.
To: Spok
Even the most offensive minority didn't make the choice to be one (and there's nothing wrong with being one, I might add). All homosexuals have chosen to be queer--mainly because it's easier to be an ersatz woman (who doesn't even have to worry about menstruation or childbirth) than to be a real man.
To: ComtedeMaistre
I have talked to several Democrats from union households as well...
My dad is a hard-core dyed in the wool "labor Democrat". I can't wait to ask him the next time I talk to him, "Dad, how come the Democrats are pushing gay marriage so hard?" This issue is bound to drive a wedge between a lot of Democrats and their party.
To: right-left
"This is a clear civil rights issue." Bull$hit! This is a judicial pro-activism issue. Wait til the courts start re-defining what's left of the Bill of Rights and you will understand.
Enjoy your short visit.
To: longtermmemmory
Two straight same sex can't marry.
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:56:15 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: ComtedeMaistre
Long John Silver in Treasure Island was married to a black woman, so I would assume that the idea wasn't considered particularly bizarre in 19th century England, at least.
To: right-left; wardaddy
Oh my.. what twisted web we weave.
(Good to see you here,wardaddy!)
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:57:28 PM PST
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: right-left
Nice knowing you R-L. Good luck in your future endeavors.
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:57:46 PM PST
by
wtc911
(How can a blind man be a lookout?)
To: Tacis
This is a no-brainer! You don't simply start calling a bunch of pigeaons ducks just because these pigeons think that ducks get a better deal in life. Allowing fairies to force normal people to redefine an old word just to fit the fairies preferences doen't make sense. So you would not oppose the law allowing "civil unions" between same-sex couples as long as same-sex unions are not called "Marriage"? If your objection is to using the word "married" for same-sex couples, then I think that is an easy comprmise. Call it something else, but provide all the same rights and privileges accorded to married heterosexual couples.
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posted on
02/20/2004 3:58:48 PM PST
by
clamboat
To: longtermmemmory
If there were a gay gene and it were identifiable in utero we would see two welcome events within ten years...
The end of Roe v. Wade and the dissolution of the democrats as a party.
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:00:44 PM PST
by
wtc911
(How can a blind man be a lookout?)
To: Chris Talk
who said anything about a sorry companion
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:05:02 PM PST
by
mel
To: right-left
I've been in an heterosexual interracial marriage 12 yrsYou forgot to say you are a Christian conservative.
Isn't that the way they train you seminar callers?
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:06:35 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Twinkie
That's right! In later years, Moses had a black wife. Aaron & his sister, Miriam, criticized Moses for this. God struck Aaron and Miriam with the inability to speak. What could be clearer than that example? (Moses had to pray for them for it to be lifted!) You're right that the tradition is that Tzipporah, Moshe's first and only wife was dark skinned, but there is no source for the idea that Miriam or Aharon said anything negative about her color EVER. In fact, the tradition is that Miriam says Tzipporah is extremely beautiful and righteous. Miriam was punished for the sin of loshon hara (evil gossip) for talking to Aharon about her concerns that Moshe was not spending enough time with his wife, because of his work as a prophet. Her sin was comparing him to other prophets, thereby not recognizing his greatness. Miriam was striken with tzaaras, which is translated as a kind of leprosy of the skin. But it was temporary.
To: ComtedeMaistre
Excellent.
Just putting such a post up is a step in the right direction. Maybe Rush will pick up on this for his show prep.
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:07:30 PM PST
by
don-o
To: Miles Vorkosigan
No it wasn't esp. in the British colonies where even during slavery, it was still legal.
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:08:06 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: wardaddy
yeah and she discovered Mike Savage on the radio too. She won't listen to Rush but she just loves Mike Savage.
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:10:47 PM PST
by
cyborg
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