[newgeezer]

Answers like this show me how pointless this whole topic is.

I thought dirtboy's reply was appropriate and well-reasoned, especially considering the apparent spiritual state of the person to whom he replied.

I was once dead, too, and would have been quite proud to have devised such a reasoned solution to what I viewed as little more than a perpetual irritant to the otherwise wonderful and united Republican Party.

[biblewonk]

he said:let's see if we can declare Jews, Slavs, Christians, Muslims, Aborigines or women as something less than human when it suits our needs.

Why not just say, "that sounds like something Hitler would say?". It shows you are debating with someone that has no interest in debating.

[biblewonk]

The fact that people stoop to that tactic so quickly and think themselves on the moral highground shows this whole topic to be hopelessly emotional.