Posted on 02/22/2004 9:37:24 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
They remember White Night just like the gays do. That was a real battle. To one side, it's just a job, to the other, it's life and death. The cops know it and don't want it. This could get really ugly. It may take troops.
I concur to a point. I think it's all a matter of timing.
Let the straight-hating radicals take the 1st misstep of stepping it up a notch and by breaking things and hurting people. Then the gov would be justified in sending in the National Guard to restore order.
-juxtaposed to-
A "overeager" action-hero-actor-as-Gov sending in the troops to squash a "peaceful" civil-disobediance-protest.....
"Thank Goodness it wasn't plaid!!"
I don't know where you live or work, and its possible that from your perspective, nearly 100% of the people around you are either religious, or not too open about being nonreligious. Please also consider the people who might call themselves Christian only because they've heard some Bible stories, and put up a poster of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny in the window on the corresponding holidays. There are also a lot of religious people who worry about imposing their religion on others. If it were as you speak, we would have outlawed abortion in this country twenty five years ago. We still can't even get a ban on partial birth abortion through yet, its still clogged up in the courts.
They peaked in 1970, they do not procreate, and they will die childless.
Well, the lesbians can always find a sperm donor and a turkey baster. I'd venture to guess that all of the homosexuals out there came from heterosexual families, and always will. It really doesn't matter what level of prohibition anyone throws against them, its just a matter of whether its in plain sight, or in the shadows.
Well, that certainly explains your passion on the issue. I fully expect the People's Republic of Washington to join the list of states considering gay marriage soon, maybe as soon as the election is over, and we have yet another Rat governor. I expect that there will be passion on both sides of the issue here, too.
The courts are our servants, and will serve us or be replaced.
Even out here, Supreme Court judges must stand for re-election. Usually, the elections are yawners, and most people don't even bother to vote in those races. That may be one of the big priorities for your Legislature, they need a constitutional amendment for periodic popular election of the Commonwealth's SJC judges, for a large variety of reasons.
Homosexuality derives from rape, not families.
I can't agree that 100% of homosexuals were raped, but certainly some of the rapes were in the families that these people came from. Another thing both of our states need to work on is longer prison sentences for child rapists, that's for sure. And that's only if we don't have the guts to hang them.
Hopefully, the passion you speak of arising in your area will be directed towards that goal, too. I can hardly wait for it to happen in mine.
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