EpicDude86
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Jawohl mein GRAMMATIK FÜHRER!
First off, it's not a small minority. This is almost 50/50 + noise. Second, you don't understand the fundamentals of this country. We establish the free exercise of the rights of the People, all the People. The system was set up not to be direct democracy (as that is mob rule), but rather a democratic Republic in which we have checks to ensure the rights of the minority are not trampled. If you wish to move against the rights of the minority, you are in the wrong, you are practicing evil.
31 ststes have voted on the issue and 31 states said no, most by huge majorities...........This country is not for gay marriage and I don't believe it ever will be...............
a minority is Blacks, gays are a class of people defined by their sexual preference.......You can't stop being black....you can stop being gay...........
31 ststes have voted on the issue and 31 states said no, most by huge majorities...........This country is not for gay marriage and I don't believe it ever will be...............
a minority is Blacks, gays are a class of people defined by their sexual preference.......You can't stop being black....you can stop being gay...........
No it has nothing to do with the American voting system, it has to do with the meaning of the word majority and plurality:
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Reading together.
Majority --
1. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
2. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
Plurality --
A large number or amount; a multitude
The number by which the vote of the winning choice in such a contest exceeds that of the closest opponent.
Note that it does not specify by how many % or points, etc. it should be bigger; it simply says "greater", "more than half", "exceeds"...
Now, counting: the whole number is 94; half of it is 47; is 49 bigger, greater, more than half, exceeds 47? Yes.
and to do the will of the people............Gay Marriage is NOT the will of the people...........
31 ststes have voted on the issue and 31 states said no, most by huge majorities...........This country is not for gay marriage and I don't believe it ever will be...............
a minority is Blacks, gays are a class of people defined by their sexual preference.......You can't stop being black....you can stop being gay...........
Democracy = 51% rule
Republic = Plurality rule
America = Republic
Yes?
Majority --
1. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
2. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
Plurality --
A large number or amount; a multitude
The number by which the vote of the winning choice in such a contest exceeds that of the closest opponent.
Note that it does not specify by how many % or points, etc. it should be bigger; it simply says "greater", "more than half", "exceeds"...
However....Navy....the tide is turning and it soon will be. The polls have shifted dramatically over the last few years. We will see gay marriage recgonized as a right in every state of this great nation.....even within your lifetime. So you best prepare.
Precisely the point!
Then why do we have to be subjected to "Gay Pride" marches, gay awareness at schools or quotas for gay people at work?
If gays have a right to rub their gayness into our faces, then we have an equal right to oppose it.
You have to understand what half is I suppose. You can stop, all you're doing right now is digging a deeper hole. People are already laughing, it's time to employ some damage control.
Because they don't have the same rights as you. You get to marry who you love. They don't. THAT is what makes it unequal. Despite peoples spin of that not mattering. Which is a cop out to help them sleep better at night.
You do understand what more than half means....right? The whole number, BTW, is 100. 100% of the votes taken. The total is not merely the addition of the two in question, it is the TOTAL number of vote. Jesus.
We are generally a nation who ultimately does the right thing because it is the right thing to do....not just because it was put to a simple majority vote.
When the majority of your society decided it wants to do so.
And let me remind you of one basic: it's a state with all its institutions, laws and constitutions that exists for the people, not people for the state. And if the majority of people decide they want a change in laws then it is the duty of the state to do so.
Wow. I'm not sure if you're being factious here or if you're really this dense. If the majority wants slavery, their wish is not imposed as that wish infringes upon the rights of the minority. .
Majority --
1. The greater number or part; a number more than half of the total.
2. The amount by which the greater number of votes cast, as in an election, exceeds the total number of remaining votes.
Plurality --
A large number or amount; a multitude
The number by which the vote of the winning choice in such a contest exceeds that of the closest opponent.
Note that it does not specify by how many % or points, etc. it should be bigger; it simply says "greater", "more than half", "exceeds"...
I am not Jesus, but I can try to help you.
If you have 2 apples, it's 100%; if you have 200 apples, its 100%; if you have any number of apples, that number will be your 100%...
100% means "ALL THAT YOU HAVE".
Now, we have 94% of the total voting for an issue; that 94% will be our 100% where the issue is concerned. Comprende?
Correct me if I am wrong, but when slavery was a wish of the majority, you had slavery.
It was also eliminated, without a simple majority vote to do so.