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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (108200)	4/10/2009 12:26:54 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541498

"you have such disrespect for the older generations." Hardly You don't know me at all, and you are generalizing from a statement that says the bigots have to die off- just as had to happen in the South. You are correct only in that I have little respect for old bigots- but since (happily) not all old people are bigots, I need Not disrespect them all. My dad was a member of the "Greatest generation" and there is no one I admire more- not that it's really any of your business.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (108200)	4/10/2009 12:49:19 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541498

>>Can you describe the harm or injury - since civil unions provide all the same protections as marriage - name a few actual denials of rights - which drinking fountain can they not drink from, which house can they not buy?<< DB - The harm or injury lies in the fact that civil unions offer only a subset of the protection of marriage in some states, and aren't even offered in forty of the fifty states. Perhaps you missed my posts stating that. Only California, Colorado, DC, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island offer civil unions. (In California, they're called Domestic Partnerships, and they come with a few legal restrictions that don't apply to marriages, and don't confer 100% of the legal protections and privileges.) See these two articles for more information: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org - Allen