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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
I can't explain something I never said.
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Then please, for the sake of everyone in this thread, what IS it that you have said, since what you just said you didn't say is the only thing I can come up with as the primary thread of argument against gay marriage that we have here.
The bedrock ideal of this country is equality of opportunity. We teach it to every child, we say it in the pledge of allegiance, we go on and on about it. It hasn't always worked, but it has been an omnipresent force in American culture and politics. Nothing is different between the gay rights movement and the black civil rights movement, and I feel very secure in thinking that the history books will agree with me on that.
To echo will's closing quotation:
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First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
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