[Carl]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20041128/ts_washpost/a16443_2004nov27

[Taristin]

Alabama! Birthplace of Democracy!

[Ford Prefect]

**** the south.

[JR2000Z]

Alabama always had that problem it seems...yeah racism still exists.


****, slavory still even exists.

[Rictor]

hey, wait a minute, isn't Liberator from Ala-
...oh.

[Liberator]

Frickin' Sterotypes...

Ok, let's straighten this out.

1)The wording was already illegal by fiat of the United States Supreme Court.  Therefore it didn't need to be removed.  And if you knew anything about Alabama's current constitution you'd realize that it has to be amended everytime a dog wants to crap, we need a new one in the worst way.

2)The amendment in question also contained language that would allow Judges to levy taxes in certain situations.   It was a vote against legalize Judcial Tyranny, not desegragration.

We're not now, and haven't been for a long time now, the racists rednecks that we are continuously stereotyped as.

[Bobboau]

but amending the constitution to outlaw gays from marage is absolutely nesisary.

[Taristin]

Isn't it great how politicians lump things like "Increase military spending" in with "Improve our education system" on votes like this? Florida had a whole bunch of 4-step backward laws passed because people really wanted one part of them, and didn't look any further at the rest of the amendments...

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Bobboau
but amending the constitution to outlaw gays from marage is absolutely nesisary.

Of course! If they didn't, the entire population would be tempted to form homosexual couples and apply for marriages! There's no laws stopping heterosexual marriage! And look at how rampant that is!

[Liberator]

Raa:

There's a difference between being anti-gay and racist.  Homosexuality is not a racial trait.  It's a choice, and I can dislike you as much as I want for a making what I believe to be a lousy choice.  I should rephrase that, I can dislike the choice as much as I want.  I don't care what the hell two people do in the privacy of a bedroom, but I'll be damned before I sit there and let them rub my face in it, which is what happens every time they sue someone for predudice.

[Ford Prefect]

"First the military, now marriage. Why do gays want in on our worst institutions?" -The Onion

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Liberator
Raa:

There's a difference between being anti-gay and racist.  Homosexuality is not a racial trait.  It's a choice, and I can dislike you as much as I want for a making what I believe to be a lousy choice.  I should rephrase that, I can dislike the choice as much as I want.  I don't care what the hell two people do in the privacy of a bedroom, but I'll be damned before I sit there and let them rub my face in it, which is what happens every time they sue someone for predudice.

I didn't want to edit. For one thing.

And for the umpteenth time, though you cannot seem to understand this, Homosexuality is not a choice! Or... did you have a choice and you chose to be heterosexual?

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Liberator

There's a difference between being anti-gay and racist.  Homosexuality is not a racial trait.  It's a choice...

You don't know that. You're basing your prejudice off of a guess, an ignorant one at that. Not that is should ****ing matter anyway.

I don't care what the hell two people do in the privacy of a bedroom, but I'll be damned before I sit there and let them rub my face in it, which is what happens every time they sue someone for predudice.

Well no ****, sherlock. If you don't care what goes on in their lives, then why give them a reason to sue? Why not just leave them the **** alone and give them the same respect as any other human being and let them be on their merry way? If every person who hated homosexuals (I'll refrain from using "bigot" at the moment) would do that, we'd have no problems with this ****.

You're allowed to dislike people as much as you want, but the moment you infrindge upon their basic rights as citizens/people, you lose all grounds.

[Bobboau]

now lets not derail, this thread is about how bacwardsed some parts of my country are.

[Taristin]

It's our country too, buddy.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Bobboau
now lets not derail, this thread is about how bacwardsed some parts of my country are.

Discriminating against Gays being part of that.

But right, the south is also ****ed up for hating blacks.

[Taristin]

And Hispanics! And Catholics!

[Knight Templar]

Doesn't everyone discriminate against Hispanics in some fashion or another though?

[Taristin]

In some fashion, yes...

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Bobboau
this thread is about how bacwardsed some parts of my country are.

BY GOD!

Before you perpetuate some antique sterotype based on events half a damn century in the past, come down here and check it out!   Frickin hell!!!!!!!!   Do we have racists?  Sure.  But I'll bet we've a damn sight fewer than where most of you buggers live.

DEAR SWEET GOD IN HEAVEN!

I am sick to death of people assuming things about my home.  Nobody I know is a racist.  Some of the Old Timers have a few stereotypes that they mutter under their breath, but the Klan doesn't exist as such around here.