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To: Bratch; nathanbedford

“When gay marriage was being advanced over the past 20 years, one of the common sayings of activists was: “The sky didn’t fall.” People would say: “Look, we’ve had gay marriage in Massachusetts for three weeks, and I’ve got news for you! The sky didn’t fall!” They were right in the short term. But I think they forgot how delicate a system a democratic constitutional republic is, how difficult it is to get the formula right, and how hard it is to see when a government begins—slowly, very slowly—to veer off course in a way that can take decades to become evident.

Then one day we discover that, although we still deny the sky is falling, we do so with a lot less confidence.”

What we’re going through can be encapsulated as follows:

Any deviancy from the normal will eventually be “normalized” if it is perceived to not cause individual or societal harm.

Problem is, it may take decades for such harm to become apparent to the majority of people.

Such is the case with homo marriage, transgenderism and other deviancies being normalized today.


36 posted on 02/23/2020 10:57:59 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: aquila48

37 posted on 02/23/2020 12:11:50 PM PST by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: aquila48

It’s the law of unintended consequences.


38 posted on 02/23/2020 9:50:36 PM PST by DeweyCA
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