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To: dpa5923

Remember this. Rosa Parks intentionally disobeyed an unjust law and in doing so advance the cause of freedom and equality under the law.

Yes, it was a planned event. This does not belittle the event in anyway. Instead it shows the courage of people who knew the potential consequences of their actions and stood firm on the side of right anyway.

how does that relate to Lawrence v. Texas? sounds like a similar situation, in which a crime was set-up to get the case into courts because they believed they were on the side of what was right.


48 posted on 10/27/2005 12:24:59 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: absolootezer0

It does appear that Lawrence V Texas was staged as well. I feel the courts ruled incorrectly in this matter.

However, I find the suggestion that these cases are similar unfounded. Lawrence v Texas was an attempt to justify sexual acts. Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement was an attempt to eliminate skin color (a benign and unalterable (except in the case of Jacko) physical condition that in no way impacts on a persons worth of ability) as a guiding facet of law.

Granted the civil rights movement has been hi-jacked by bigots and racist and fools of all stripe and color, but the cause of equality fought for by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr is worthy of conservative support.

You aren't suggesting that the elimination of Jim Crow laws was a bad thing, are you?




51 posted on 10/27/2005 12:58:36 PM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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