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Old 05-23-2015, 12:08 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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As many of your conservative cohorts will tell you, America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

From the beginning, our government was expressly designed to protect the civil rights of minorities, which, as most people now recognize, includes gay people.
A constitutional republic is a form of democracy
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Old 05-23-2015, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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A constitutional republic is a form of democracy
Well of course. The point is that it is the kind of democracy where minority rights are protected, regardless of how many times the majority votes against them.
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Old 05-23-2015, 04:54 PM
 
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Don't forget were are talking thousands of years of human history too.
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