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Related: About this forumFuture U.S. History Students: 'It's Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay Marri
Future U.S. History Students: 'It's Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay Marriage'DECATUR, IL, THE YEAR 2083According to students in Mr. Bernard's fourth-period U.S. history class, it's "really pathetic" how long it took for early-21st-century Americans to finally legalize gay marriage.
The class of 2086 said it was "laughable" that people against gay marriage were given a legitimate political voice in the early 21st century.
The classroom of 15-year-olds at MacArthur High Schoolall of whom were born in the late 2060s and grew up never questioning the obvious fact that homosexual couples deserve the right to get marriedwere reportedly "amazed" to learn in their Modern U.S. History: 2081 Edition textbooks that as late as the 2020s, gays and lesbians actually had to fight for the constitutional right to wed.
"Wow, that is nuts," said student Jeremy Golliver, who claimed he knew gay rights was a struggle "like, a hundred years ago" but didn't realize it lasted so long. "It's really embarrassing, when you think about it. Just the fact that people in this century were actually saying things like, 'No, gays should not be allowed to marry,' and were getting all up in arms about it, as if homosexuals weren't full citizens or something. It's insane."
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Future U.S. History Students: 'It's Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay Marri (Original Post)
Jamastiene
Feb 2013
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Behind the Aegis
(53,949 posts)1. LMAO! (well, except that "President Romney" part..G-d FORBID!)
Maven
(10,533 posts)2. Funny cuz it's true
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)3. The Onion always nails it...knr
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)4. I tell those people I know who are not pro-equality, look how those people who were against civil
rights in the 1950s and 1960s seem to you now. They seem that way to everybody, they seem like ridiculous bigots who have no place on the planet.
That is how those people against LGBT rights are going to seem in the very near future. It's getting that way already. Don't be among those people.