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DC approves same-sex marriage law

DarkWizard12 said:
WRONG


Please, please, please, read my post again. Obviously you didn't read. My idea of "majority opinion" does not apply because the majority of people had NO OPINION on slavery at the time. prior to the 1800's, the only people that cared about slavery were the slaver owners; therefore, they had their way untill someone in the north actually thought about slavery as an issue.

Gay marriage is different, most people have an opiniion, and lo and behold, it's against gay marriage.
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I'm sorry but I'm not sure if anyone is buying the idea that they didn't have an opinion on it. Seriously? That's what you are saying? People were being OWNED and you don't have an opinion on it? BS.

Besides, the point I was making was that majority opinion has nothing to do with what is right and wrong if you believe in basic human rights.
 
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Indy said:
Abolition:
England 1833
America 1863

Technically I suppose you are correct that slavery IN AMERICA ended, but if you were implying that somehow America ended or even was a major factor in the beginning of the abolitionist movement is just wrong.
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I'm not sure how comparing abolition of slavery in England, which for all practical purposes never really existed there in the first place, much less on any significant institutionalized basis, supports your conclusion that America was not a major factor in the beginning of the abolitionist movement. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery in the new territories. Quakers and other anti-slavery groups promoted abolitionist ideas since the earliest colonial days. So yes... America did play a significant factor in the abolitionist movement.

We had to fight a bloody civil war to finally end it. England did not.

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I think it is pretty sad that some people feel so threatened by gay marriage.

Do people actually think their marriages will cease to exist if gay marriage is made legal?

I mean honestly the day after gay marriage is made legal, does that mean society ends and the rapture happens or what?
 
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