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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 03:41 PM
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1800's era arguments against suffrage = Prop 8 logic
It's obviously wrong and unnatural. It doesn't follow the biblical examples. It goes against tradition. It will unravel the very fabric of society. God will be angry. And what about the children?

http://www.bible-researcher.com/women/suffrage.html

Conservatives "reasons" why women can't vote, now recycled to use against gays who want to marry.

" And first, this reform signifies nothing less than a radical and revolutionary change in our whole social system.
Society as at present constituted is based upon the Family as the social unit. The State is not an aggregation of individuals, but an organism, of which the family is an integral part......" more at link

90th anniversary of women's suffrage is today!
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 03:47 PM
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1. Conservatives recycle the same bullshit arguments decade after decade. nt
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 03:48 PM
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2. Pro-Slavery used same dumb argument too n/t
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 03:50 PM
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3. The RRRW isn't particularly bright or creative
They also used the same arguments against interracial marriage and same-sex marriage (sometimes almost word-for-word). Why people fall for this shit time after time is beyond me.
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