Reply #12: Jim Crow laws were about keeping the status quo [View All]

[FM Arouet666]

So your point is well taken. Obama's position is more akin to 'don't ask don't tell' which I suspect will come to an end under his administration, and as such, can be seen as a stepping stone.

On the other hand, we really don't know what Obama is thinking, whether civil unions are, in his mind, the end of the conversation. A christian liberal might adopt such a position and this would be more like Jim Crow, separate but equal.

And I am not against compromise, I am taking an extreme position, not as flame bait as others have suggested, but to try and define in my own mind what are the bounds of this argument. The last time I posted for compromise, as you suggested, I got reamed.

Just trying to see all sides of this argument.