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To: cosmicforce who wrote (108028)	4/8/2009 5:45:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541342

We live in an age where fundamental social changes have happened often enough that people are used to the concept; in 1904, it had been 40 years since the end of slavery and 60 more would elapse before the voting rights act. I'm not sure just when gay civil unions first happened but it has been enough years for the inertia to be overcome, and the train set in motion for ending this particular form of discrimination in a matter of years. I was wondering the other day....once formal prejudice against homosexuals has been outlawed, what regulatory discrimination will still exist? Hardly any that I can think of. I expect most of the displaced anger then will be aimed at immigrants, especially illegals, because they are different, and don't have a strong economic or legal foothold in the latter case. OTOH, the established immigrant communities should become a stronger political force and begin to offset those pressures. We already saw an election where immigration got lip service but little real weight.