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Via: Orion at Pams House Blend

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

The NAACP gets it

Kip put it better than I did by simply placing two significant quotes next to each other.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
--Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Who's going to tell us what a civil right is and what's not? Well, the people will.
--Massachusetts Governor, Harvard Law School graduate (and Christian), Mitt Romney, June 28, 2006

Who? The people?
Like maybe Gladys? Or any of the rest of these folks?
Think about it for a second. If they had a shot at it, which civil rights court rulings would these people like to see overturned? And not just the people in the video, but the far more politically savvy people who get them "angried-up" and out at the polls? The people whose founders, favored politicians, and spokespersons have a peculiar habit of defending America's peculiar institution? The people who could conceivably mount a campaign to repeal civil rights rulings that they are "not against" but that are "no longer necessary"? (I'm just guessing how they might spin it.
Which would you like to see up for a vote:

Brown v. Board of Education (school desegregation, major blow against "separate but equal")
Roe v. Wade (reproductive freedom)
Shelley v. Kramer (racially restrictive "covenants" in real estate - This one's definitely on Glady's list)
Bailey v. Patterson (segregation in intrastate and interstate transportation)
Batson v. Kentucky (basically says you can't put, say, a Black person on trial and exclude Black people from the jury)
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (defined "hostile work environment" as sexual harassment under the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Serv. Inc. (same-sex harassment can be the basis for a sexual harassment claim)
Romer v. Evans (overturned Colorado amendment prohibiting protection of LGBT rights)
Lawrence v. Texas (decriminalized sodomy, overturned sodomy laws)
Grisswold v. Connecticut (overturned law banning contraception, right to "marital privacy")
And of course the major civil rights acts of
1957 (established the Civil Rights Commission)
1960 (federal inspection of voter registration polls)
1964 (prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, and national origin)
1968 (Fair Housing Act)
You could almost line them up chronologically and figure out how far people would like to turn back the clock if they could. In a very real sense, even if you're not gay, you could be "next" on their list. MORE

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