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Originally posted by Cloudbringer:
Dirty Meg, slandering the inhabitants of a any state as a whole is bashing an entire group of people based on the attitudes or behaviors of a small number. It's not acceptable to do that to gays, or democrats or the English, Americans or Canadians etc etc and it's not acceptable to make sweeping insulting generalizations in this case, either. I realize the topic is heated and you obviously have a strong opinion that differs with those of others here and in Virgina, but it only inflames things if you toss out wholesale insults like that.
In general, I'd like to remind everyone who posts in this thread to please keep this discussion civil or it will end up being locked.
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I disapprove of lots of things... Drinking Coffee rather than tea, Using ashtrays for non-smoking related debris, Mime, voting labour, Vivaldi ring tones... I could go on forever. This is not a debate about whether people approve of homosexual marriage or civil unions, this is a debate about the right of a majority to oppress other peoples activities merely because they disapprove of them. I may dislike all of the activities listed above, but I would defend to the death your right to do them.
My remarks were not directed at the people of Virginia as a whole, merely those who don't want to give gay couples the same rights as hetrosexual couples.