Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.jone-system.com!mmcatv.co.jp!news.moat.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Initial impressions from the Japanese premier of Fahrenheit 9/11 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:35:38 -0400 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2ov69aFd9vt9U40@uni-berlin.de> References: <3i1hi059e7o5s77mh9n77a596ts4p8rsna@4ax.com> <088hi0larbghhoir6ktesc4oe53e04l9ud@4ax.com> <73fde4f0.0408221018.380799b8@posting.google.com> <0j2ji0tjtpabf5rrb4ndhgi2g6rrpbet8u@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 8pWI6bgUuRJf7YFiQCdDqAEHqJhB1D9760ddAbaBiCV/gDxBhD User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17229 Michael Cash wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:29:17 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >>Michael Cash wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:26:57 +0900, Raj Feridun >>> brought down from the Mount tablets >>>inscribed: >> >>>>>>I don't think gay marriage is wrong for any reason. If two men love >>>>>>each other and want to get married so be it. Who am "I" or anyone else >>>>>>to tell them that it's wrong? Illegal?! >>>> >>>>>You and I are no one at all to tell them such. The electorate, through >>>>>their representatives, are a different matter altogether. >>>> >>>>You mean the one supposedly "of the people, by the people and FOR the >>>>people?". The ones we vote into office? >> >>>Them's the very ones I'm talking about. >> >>The same ones who used to pass laws making it illegal for people of >>different races to get married? > > > One and the same. Same ones who wrote a Constitution which allowed for > slavery and which denied the vote to women until 1920. Same ones who > voted in Prohibition. > > You'd rather have a tiny handful of people appointed to their > positions for life creating policy? That would explain his support of the federal judiciary. - Kevin