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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (424705)	7/9/2003 2:54:54 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, I'm a little spelling challenged. :) Mongrelization, form of Mongrelize: mon·grel·ize ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mnggr-lz, mng-) tr.v. mon·grel·ized, mon·grel·iz·ing, mon·grel·iz·es To make mongrel in race, nature, or character. One of Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat planks - anti-mongrelization i.e. desegregation. There's your domino theory again. Using that argument, nothing would ever change anywhere, because you can take everthing to an extreme. Tax cuts are bad, because taken to the extreme means no taxes at all (and anarchy). Paying off the deficit is bad, because to the extreme, it destroys the bond market. Deserts are bad, because taken to the extreme, you fall over dead into your Death by Chocolate. Sometimes, it takes N degrees of journey to right a wrong. Civil rights did not come in one feel swoop; it took years and years of small victories, and some defeats, to make the advancement to date. For gay rights, yes, I believe the court ruling was one step in a number of steps that should, in my opinion, be taken in order to finally remove the scourge of prejudice against homosexuals. If you want to believe that that path goes through child abuse and beastiality, then by all means, cling to that fantasy. Racists against civil rights used the same style of argument against giving any rights to blacks; my goodness, pretty soon they'll be moving into our neighborhoods!