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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
What you think of Gavin Newsom surely depends -- at least in part -- on what you think of gay marriage. If you think civil disobediance is justified, then he's acting like a leader.
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That is not true for me. I am bothered by the contempt he shows for the legal process. He is a public official and I agree with club, that makes it different from Rosa Park. If he disagrees with the substance of the law, he should challenge it. But he should respect the process and act within the proper channels.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You don't seem to be particularly bothered by same-sex marriage, but you do seem to enjoy trolling on the subject.
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I am bothered by the hypocrisy of those who claim it is all about stopping discrimination when it is really just about stopping discrimination against a group that they like. They talk about these lofty principles of equal protection and substantive due process but they want to be the ones to say who gets equal protection and due process and who does not.
It is time for the government to get out of the marriage business but it is also time for people to admit that they are only against discrimination when it is against a group that they approve of.
The perfect example of this is that post- 9/11, a zogby or other well respected poll found that 70% of African Americans approved of racial/ethnic profiling of Arabs at airport security screening. ROFLMAO!! Seems like African Americans are only bothered by racial profiling when it is done on their group but like it when it is done on some other group to protect them.
