[QUOTE="imetamonster"]To put it simply i dont think this is fighting fire with fire.
Its almost like protection for the LGTB community. If we were to FORCE people to love gays that would be fighting fire with fire.
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The Supreme Court FORCED the south to integrate... exactly. the most successful tactic of the civil rights movement was using the supreme court to bend the will of the states and it allows progress to come much faster than if it were simply up to the states (with deeply rooted, bigoted majorities). would people in this thread honestly say that things would have been better if the civil rights movement in the south took decades (more likely, centuries) longer to accomplish what it could with the "brown Vs board of education" case? if so, thats a pretty repugnant and nonsensical stance.
despite what people here say, people can be forced to tolerate other people and over time, that tolerance becomes the norm.
at first, the general consensus in the south was that they didnt want blacks in schools. for the first year, there were protests, riots and all kinds of hell. only a decade or so later, it was widely accepted that blacks could be in public schools. yes, there were still problems within the schools with bullying and there were still senile dissenters who whined about it. still, its not like we needed the national guard to fend off rabid integration protesters anymore. By the time the 80s rolled around, no one questioned if blacks should be integrated and the racism that was deeply rooted before, was now its own minority.
So what does this show? government intervention can work in protecting civil rights in the short term and long term. and it also shows that decades later, not many people cry for the bigoted states that were overridden by higher governmental authorities.
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