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To: Father Terrence who wrote (23117)	6/30/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, Terrence, more laws also tend to protect freedoms from erosion sometimes. They also sometimes expand and clarify freedoms. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 comes to mind immediately. I watched the annual San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender parade on television Sunday. It was a little too cold and almost drizzly to stand and watch it in person, and besides that San Francisco was packed with so many thousands of participants from all over the world, that it was almost impossible to get into the Safeway in the Castro district on Saturday. What excitement! A city utterly jammed with people with the political objective of achieving basic civil rights for the only group of people in America who are still discriminated against on a regular basis in employment and housing, because it is still legal most places to do so. One of the organizers of the parade remarked that in twenty or thirty years it will seem absurd that we had to have parades to campaign for such basic laws. In a way I agree with that, but I also think it is possible that the militia movement may have taken over several states and seceded, taking all the white supremacists and much of the Christian right with them, and we will be two countries. What exciting times we live in!! Anyway, my point is that sometimes laws are necessary and good.