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The South Always Gets It Wrong
Every time Southerners agree on something, they get it wrong.
Slavery
Jim Crow
The Klan
Lynching
Anti-Catholicism
Religious Fundamentalism
Biblical literalism
Tobacco profiteering
Opposition to organized labor
Gun giddiness
Hate groups
Capital punishment
The belief that violence is a solution to every problem
Zealous war-making on any "enemy" Uncle Sam designates
The highest divorce rates in the nation
The worst health indicators in the nation
Staunchest opposition to The Affordable Care Act
Lousy educational systems
Incest and in-breeding. (Maybe that’s what’s wrong; Southerners have created a self-destructive gene pool…)
And now -- to make a "clean sweep" -- prohibition of same-sex marriage.
Somewhat surprisingly, Catholics "see the light" - approving same-sex marriage 51% to 47%.
Of course, Catholics live in blue states, which is to say they don't automatically see "red."
In any event…
Less than twenty five years from now, the Supreme Court will overturn all the Southern state
ammendments, and not because gay marriage is moral or immoral but because proscription is
unconstitutional and therefore anti-American.
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.” Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton - http://en.wikipedia.org/
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