RE: Indiana's Govenor Signs 'Religious Freedom' Bill
April 9, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2015 at 11:04 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(April 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm)Chas Wrote:(April 9, 2015 at 8:47 pm)Heywood Wrote: After the civil war you had a situation where you had a black population who knew how to work very hard, were productive, intelligent, and therefore could have easily moved up the economic ladder. They were doing it. Of course certain societal elements didn't like that so they passed laws which restricted peoples freedoms specifically the freedom of the black population. Jim Crow laws, minimum wage laws designed to cheap black labor out of the market, etc.
Had blacks been given all the freedoms due to them as human beings, we wouldn't have needed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination would have been punished economically. Blacks would have integrated into society and old stereo types would have faded away.
It wasn't slavery that destroyed black society and kept in the ghetto. It was the force of government.
Are you serious? Those laws were passed by the whites in power. Those laws are exactly what you are promoting: institutionalized discrimination.
You want the Christians in power to pass laws allowing for institutionalized discrimination.
But what you're not getting, Cato, is that in 60 years, we'll pass laws outlawing this "force of government" that disenfranchises gays and pretend it was government, not the majority in power, that made it happen in the first place.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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