Thread: Freedom, and isn't this the worst Congress ever?
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Old 06-28-2006, 08:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by alias
Maybe your not being able to understand congress is that you equate gay marriage and flag burning with freedoms. They are not.
Rights don't need protecting when people support their existence.
Rights need protecting when people DO NOT like them...

You may not like flag burning, but it is a first amendment protected free speech issue.
You may not like gay marriage, but marriage IS a right and any restrictions upon marriage need to be justified.

If we don't protect these freeedoms unless the majority agrees, then we are not a land of "freedom" at all.
We are a land ruled by mob rule with the masses deciding rights...
"(Gay marriage) is a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish."
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