mikegarmin4 wrote:
If gays want to cohabitate and be recognized as partners or husband+husband or wife+wife, ok, fine, I'll go with that, I'm all for civil rights. But to call it marriage, which in the United States has always been between man and woman, is a false argument.Circa 1967: "If a black and a white want to cohabitate and be recognized as partners or husband+wife, ok, fine, I'll go with that, I'm all for civil rights. But to call it marriage, which in the state of Virginia has always been between a man and a woman of the same race, is a false argument."
Circa 1840: "If a woman wants to walking into a voting booth and write something on a piece of paper, I'll go with that, I'm all for female freedom of speech. But to call it voting, which in the United States has always been between a man and a ballot box, is a false argument."
Circa 1789: "If people want to set up a new system for enacting and enforcing laws and base it on popular representative, fine, I'm all for novel experiments. But to call it government, which in Western civilization has always been between a monarch and his people, is a false argument."
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
Which is probably why I was registering 59.67mi as I rolled into T2.