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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Historically this nation has always been able to put aside the majority opinion when civil rights are on the line. Women's sufferage, racial equity were both minority opinions at the outset. And while the "majority" of the nation is against gay marraige the majority also [i]don't really care[/i]. I can't find the numbers right now but last I saw only about 25% of americans consider the issue "Very Important" the rest have an opinion but don't really care. Note the lack of success in pushing a consitiutional ammendment. Heck do a poll asking Americans whether health insurance should be free and I bet you'll get around 80% saying that free health insurance would be great but I don't see you arguing that we should all have universal health care. [quote] My argument was that there are Americans that still don't want that to be a law yet. If that is true, then some homosexuals may be forcing their ideas on others by trying to force America as a whole to recognize their unions. [/quote] The gay couples I know (and I live in San Francisco, I know quite a few) couldn't give two shits whether your dad "recognizes" their marraige. They simply want the same legal rights and benefits that your dad recieved when he married his soulmate. Also what pisses me off about this debate is that the major opposition to it seems to come from religious organizations who somehow feel their institution of marraige is somehow being diluted. If you don't what your religious commitment diluted you never should have seen it codified in law in a country that has a very clear distiction between the seperation of church and state. [img]http://www.bitdamaged.com/graphics/bitsig.gif[/img] .:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/52]bitdamaged[/url] on 07-19-2006 19:07)[/small] Loading...
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