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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
To the best of your knowledge, slavery was abolished, blacks were allowed to vote, and schools were de-segregated without protestation? Everything went smoothly with that and the government didn't have to step in at all?
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Not to mention that without the influence of the Supreme Court, which held the laws UnConstitutional in the first place, the 1964 Civil Rights Acts likely would not have happened.
Moreover, Loving v. Virginia was the Supreme Court, not the legislature or Congress, declaring, over vociferous religious objection and the vast majority of the popular opinoon, that it was okay for blacks and whites to marry. Alabama got around to taking that void law off of its books in like 2000, just in case the Court changed its mind.
This is why I think black people who voted against Prop. 8 should be teleported to prior to 1964 so they can see what it is like to sit in the back of the bus, drink from a sep. water fountain, go to a "sep. but equal" schools, etc. -- all based on the very religion they used to justify now voting for Prop. 8
Again, the lang. in Loving:
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On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail; however, the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that the Lovings leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. He stated in an opinion that:
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
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Sounds familiar doesn't it.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
Unlike marriage, civil unions are not recognized equally in every state. A civil union in one state can be completely void in another.
Additionally, there is a total of approximately 1,400 state & federal benefits for married couples as opposed to "unionized" couples.
Simply put, civil unions are not equal to marriage.
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And, of the Federal government would pass a law that said that civil unions have all the rights and benefits as traditional marriage, I'd be as happy as a pig in shiitte because that way the haters get to keep their precious marriage that the vast majority of them laugh in the face of the religious aspect of everyday
. . . that wasn't rooted in bigotry. [/QUOTE]
Which equals organized religion in this, and, frankly, most areas where rights are concerned. Sad, very true.
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Back to the topic at hand -- I am all for in this instance refusing to shop or do business with a Morman establishment that supported the hate. I mean that "church" used so many lies to scare people into voting for Prop. 8 that I think they could be sued.