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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 3:31 PM, October 09, 2014
Kathie had this to say...
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At 3:39 PM, October 09, 2014
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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At 11:09 AM, October 10, 2014
Mark P had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->One revelation on the graph is that legalization preceded (and arguably led to increased) acceptance of interracial marriage, whereas legalization of same-sex marriage has always trailed its public acceptance. Why do you think this was so? (I suspect religion.)
Some of it is probably religion, but I also think that in large parts of the country there was actually complete estrangement between black and white populations and in others there was a visceral revulsion fed by the shameful history of slavery, not to mention fear. Gay people are at the same time less threatening en masse and more likely to crop up anywhere, in any family.
I just hope that one day we look back at the lack of acceptance for same sex marriage with the same attitude most of us look at interracial marriage -- how could it possibly been illegal, and how on Earth would anyone have objected to it.
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