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To: Abundy
I believe you just made the same old argument that was used to justify slavery.
60 posted on 12/23/2002 7:36:15 AM PST by DaGman
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To: DaGman
I believe you just made the same old argument that was used to justify slavery.

Then you believe wrong and need to bone up on the issues. Of course your response could be an intentional attempt to impune my character as racist, thereby marginalizing my opinion. If the latter is the case then there is no chance of reasoned discussion with you and this is my last reponse to you. However, if your statement is made due to a lack of knowledge of the issues at hand than I will attempt to educate you and you should read on. Your response to this post will be quite illuminating and will also serve to demonstrate to observers not only your motivations, but the constitutional soundness of my position.

Slavery was justified by the view that blacks were inferior to whites and therefore the Constitution did not apply to them. I do not subscribe to that belief. I do, however, subscribe to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and my argument in that post is purely based on the First Amendment, which on it's face stands for the proposition that each of us has the right to discriminate in our personal lives free from Government interference:

Congress shall make no law...or abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble...

Of course our personal choices will have repercussions, based upon the reaction of other individuals to our choices. However, the reactions to our choices should also be free from a government mandated list of responses.

For you to attempt to impune my character as racist is reprehensible. If your post was the product of a very vulgar understanding of the issues at hand hopefully I have enlightened you.

65 posted on 12/23/2002 9:36:33 AM PST by Abundy
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