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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Look, I'm pointing out a position here clearly against my own, but gay rights, neither historically in this country nor anywhere in the Western world, have been regarded as inalienable.
My grandmothers would have laughed at the concept, and each was extremely progressive in their own way.
We can say that they are until we're blue in the face, but until it becomes accepted by the general public (my generational argument), neither us screaming from the mountaintops nor the institution of rule via judicial fiat is going to change any hearts and minds. If anything, you get a backlash making things worse.
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Gay or straight is irrelevant. We have long believed that the State has no place in our bedrooms. If that is the case, then what happens in the bedroom is not a valid basis for distinction. And quite frankly, I don't particularly care about changing hearts and minds. It doesn't matter to me if the redneck HS boys from Kingwood or Scarsdale or Naperville never come to see homosexuality as anything other than wrong, so long as the court knows its duty is to tell them to mind their own fucking business, like it or not.
