46% of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal?

Oh I'm not going to waste my time again posting the dozen or so verses from the bible. They're in there if you choose to learn the truth.

 

Please show me where GOD demanded interracial purity.

That said, common sense should be the final arbiter. If you want to marry a woman of another race, you should do so. If you don't, you shouldn't. That's common sense.

 

So in other words, you don't know, but think it's in there somewhere....

The truth is you can find the justification for anything you want in the Bible, if you take the right verse out of context.

 

that might be tjhe same verse where god demanded affirmative action, quotas and dumbed down civil service tests

 

LOL......that was the best one liner I've ever seen on this forum. Should make liberals sink in humiliation.

 

Then it should be simple for you to point them out to us then.

 

Of course interracial marriage should be illegal, its not traditional marriage.

For the sake of tradition, we should discriminate against people.

 

what a piece of filthy propagandizing lying hogwash. No link to any such poll. No date certain, no demographics on the responders other than some percentage points and claims of racism. Nothing scientific about it, NOT EVEN the number of respondents. WHO was the polling entity? the questions?

Doesn't it strike you odd that some ny paper media reports on what they say is a poll is mississippi? WHAT the HELL do they know about Mississippi and why are they reporting on it with little or no facts or information. Is Public polling whatever an arm of this NY rag?

Looks like someone fell for this like a ton of bricks.

 

It is the South, why would it be surprising?

 

It wouldn't surprise me if 46% of Mississippi citizens thought that the sun revolves around the Earth

 

http://www.politicalforum.com/civil...cial-marriage-should-illegal.html#post3731384

If you're referring to the OP, it should be obvious that I'm questioning the poll results, not falling for them.

 

Thanks for the thread!

1) I don't think government should determine what is and isn't marriage
2) If the government IS deciding marriage - then the law should apply the same to all - all forms should be legal (even a man marrying his goat).
3) I know two interracial couples - but this is irrelevant to my opinion i think, for example, I don't know of any homosexual couples.

 

I don't find it suprizing at all. The level of ignorance of the raging masses is profound.

People who have worked in the service industry for any length of time can confirm this. Sad but true.

Its lack of education in Civics and the ideas on which the Constitution was founded. Freedom and Liberty are just not words that most folks understand well.

If you only believe in freedom for things that you agree with, then you do not really believe in freedom at all.

You see this every day if you take the time to look.

Today the Feds gave the Medical Pot outlets in CA 45 days to shut down.

In the same week:

I do not smoke Pot, tried it in my youth as most did and it is far less dangerous than booze, but it is not my thing.

Proposition 19- to legalize and tax pot lost, barely, but it lost.

54% of "voters", not just any old folks these are voters which one would think would be a little more interested in the world around them, voted against freedom and liberty.

It is not that 54% does not have their own reasons for voting against Prop 19. The problem is that a large portion of the 54% does not understand the question.

If there were to ask these folks to give their reasons for voting you woulds have a list that included something like:

1) I dont like Pot
2) Its against my Religion to do drugs
3) My peers do not like it
4) Pot is bad for you

There is a difference between having a personal belief, and forcing that belief on someone else.

The question on Proposition 19 is not, what is your personal opinion. If it was 1-4 would be a fine answer.

That is not the question of a referendum where a law is to be made or changed.

The question is: Do you have legitimate justification to ask the state to force your belief on others though use of violence, imprisonment or fine.

What is a ligitimate justification ?

2 and 3 we can throw out immediately:

What your religion thinks or what your parents think is not a justification for anything other than modification of your personal behaviour.

1 - how is something you personally dislike justification for telling others what to do. Would the person that gave this reason agree that others should be able control their life based on their personal beliefs ? One can not hold this position and not be in hypocrisy

4) This is actually a quazi valid justification. Surely if something is extremely bad for people "we the people" can come up with justification for getting the state involved.

Does Pot meet this test ? Not unless we want to ban alcohol, cigarettes, skiing, driving a car, and fatty foods. Each of these can harm someone.

What is lacking is education.

If folks are not educated enough to even understand the question how valid is the vote ?

 

Mississippi isn't exactly a bastion of tolerance...

 

I think the states should be able to outlaw anything they want when it comes to marriage.
It wont happen though because they dont have the public support for it. Inter racial marriage is here to stay.

 

i wouldn't be surprised if the number of people in mississippi, against interracial marriage, isn't higher than what the poll showed

 

Obviously not, obviously not, and yes, my parents were one. I think the real question is "why not".

 

Another thing I though about: how many of these Republicans are the result of interracial marriages themselves?

 

(*)(*)(*)(*) and this is the 21st century.

My Neice is marrying a black guy from Uganda and we love him.

 

I'm not much on God myself, but who says a God has to be nice?

 

Well, so far 99.9% of us have managed to keep making the Koch brothers and their brethren wealthier every year, and pay less taxes on their income as well.

But it IS getting tougher as the middle class descends into poverty from the wealthy's policies and politics.

 

That's sad, Fiddler. If you believe you pay more taxes than the Koch brothers then you are even more delusional that those who believe in angels and those who believe people have a right to not have to work.

And, sadly, it's getting easier and easier for deadbeats or haven't you been keeping up with the news.

 

show me where he said he pays more taxes than the koch brothers

 

How dare those Koch brothers engage in free and fair enterprise and make themselves a success.

 

what a joke, that's one of the most idiotic statements i've seen lately