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To: Alan Chapman
You startin to sound like a liberal. That's oranges and apples. The ones that supported slavery didn't view blacks as equal humans. However, the witchcraft and sodomy laws applied to everyone. And the very authors of the USC supported those state laws.
400 posted on 06/15/2002 3:08:03 PM PDT by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
...The ones that supported slavery didn't view blacks as equal humans. However, the witchcraft and sodomy laws applied to everyone. And the very authors of the USC supported those state laws.

I was merely following your line of reasoning to its logical conclusion.

You said, "...the founders supported state laws that prohibited witchcraft, and sodomy..."

Therefore what? Therefore we should support something because the founders supported it? That isn't an argument. It is a fallacy known as Argumentum ad Verecundiam.

423 posted on 06/15/2002 3:26:04 PM PDT by Alan Chapman
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