Does the South always have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age? (school, federal government)

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by natalie469

I was born in mississippi. My grandparents were cajun. I have an enormous family that lives in the south. I'm sorry but the south is still racist.

Just because your family is populated with racists, that doesn't mean the south is.

BTW, did you know the Aryan Nations is based out of Idaho? According to most maps, that isn't in the south.

Additionally, it started in California.

[Vejadu]

For people who cry and whine about Conservatives pushing their morals on everyone, they sure seem to delight in pushing their Liberal values on other people.

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

The beauty of this country is you have different states with different laws and priorities. If you want to live in regulation central, go to NY, if you want less reglated society, go to Texas, etc. The South should make their own choices (provided they don't violate the Constitution) and the rest of the country should accept it.

Which is why they had these laws struck down.

[bUU]

Originally Posted by Vejadu

For people who cry and whine about Conservatives pushing their morals on everyone, they sure seem to delight in pushing their Liberal values on other people.

You're missing the point. Right-wingers seek to impose their beliefs onto others living within their own skin; Right-wingers seek to impose their beliefs onto others living within their own families; Right-wingers seek to impose their beliefs onto how other people worship and live in accordance with their religious beliefs. Contrast that with liberals who seek only to force right-wingers to not impose their right-wing beliefs on other people living within their own skins, within their own families, and within their own worship. No one is telling a devout Christian that they must marry someone of the same sex, just that they have to let other people do so, and respect those other peoples' marriages as much as they want everyone to respect their own heterosexual marriage.

This is a bit of lack of perspective from which right-wingers often suffer: The inability to tell the difference between the moral turpitude inherent in their insistence on their control over other people's bodies, their control over other people's families, their control over other people's worship; and the moral fortitude of other people asserting their right to live as full and equal members of society even if the way they live doesn't match what the right-wingers might like.

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

Originally Posted by Vejadu

For people who cry and whine about Conservatives pushing their morals on everyone, they sure seem to delight in pushing their Liberal values on other people.

No one says you have to like the values. You just can't go out of your way to deny people rights because you don't like them.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by BentBow

There are still some that feel, in this thing we call a nation of individual states, that individual freedom outweighs control and micro-management of of liberties, turning them all into privileges.

So if you think that "individual freedom outweighs control and micro-management of of liberties", why are you upholding the power of a state government to deny a gay individual the right to enter into a marriage contract? I really don't get this argument.

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

Originally Posted by jacqueg

So if you think that "individual freedom outweighs control and micro-management of of liberties", why are you upholding the power of a state government to deny a gay individual the right to enter into a marriage contract? I really don't get this argument.

Because they don't want godless heathens such as ourselves to corrupt pure Christian values, gawd....

[victimofGM]

To read some posters here you'd think the entire south all think and act the same. Alabama did something and all I see is "the south".

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

Originally Posted by victimofGM

To read some posters here you'd think the entire south all think and act the same. Alabama did something and all I see is "the south".

That's why i pointed out that it's pretty much limited to Alabama . No other Southern states have done anything like this so far.

[texan2yankee]

The South, in general, values states’ rights and local control. Regardless of the issue, southerners reject the expansion of federal powers.