To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (579974 ) 6/1/2004 12:41:34 PM From: Johannes Pilch Respond to In the fairly recent past, it was official American law to deny people of certain races the freedom to marry whomever they wished, despite the fact that nature biologically grants any heterosexual couple that right. Eventually, society came to understand that the law was wrong and began to accept the marriages. But in many places the racist philosophy was still enshrined in law, though it was not usually enforced. Despite the changes in society, people still were concerned about the law and worked all along to change it. What you are saying here is that they were wrong, that is is wrong for a person to be concerned with removing the philosophy from the law, and that one should instead support policies where the law is simply not put into effect.
