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Thu May-29-08 02:15 PM
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22. States rights is and has always been about states rights to |
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discriminate.
When a man who claims to be for equality cops out with that phrase, we know he means that he doesn't have a personal leadership stance on the issue in any meaningful way.
I liked what Feingold and Hackett said; it brooked no response and did not rely on states to decide whether individuals had a right to make decisions out their own property and families.
It was a position of "moral" leadership in the original sense of that word; the unequivocal practice of fairness.
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