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To: pierrem15
Do you think the Army would fire on Americans to enforce gay marriage?

Do you think the Army would have fired on Americans to enforce desegregation in 1957?

We don't know, because Gov. Faubus blinked. If it came to it, I think Texas would blink now as well.

87 posted on 02/26/2014 12:50:22 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
Yes-- only 12 years after 1945 and 4 after the Korean War, and Eisenhower former SHAEF commander.

Obama is no Eisenhower, and the military is professional now, not Cold War draftee.

The officers and men have a much better understanding of the Constitution than the judiciary, and I tend to think they would sit out any such conflict, telling His Royal High-ness that this is a political dispute.

89 posted on 02/26/2014 1:03:00 PM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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