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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (108121)4/10/2009 1:40:26 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541424
 
"That's the point - they are - in some states for and in some against"

That is NOT the point.

They can do whatever they like privately- but they cannot use the state to further their bigotry. That just doesn't work for me. It obviously works for lots of other people- who confuse the freedom to privately be as prejudiced as you want to be, with the responsibility of the state to treat people fairly under the law. People who cower under a bible pretending it mandates that the state discriminate, if that is what "the people" want, get zero respect from me, but even I would not use the state to discriminate against such sad excuses for human beings- I simply would not allow them to persecute others by means of the state.
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