[GreenLanternCorps]

The 14th amendment to the Constitution prohibits denying blacks full citizenship. Jim Crow laws and government mandated racial segregation, were violation of God given rights.

It was necessary and proper for the United States to intervene.

Homosexual marriage is the creation, out of thin air, of something that never existed before. Then forcing that creation on the people using the courts.

Big difference.

[Bluewater2015]

The 14th amendment to the Constitution prohibits denying blacks full citizenship. Jim Crow laws and government mandated racial segregation, were violation of God given rights.

It was necessary and proper for the United States to intervene.

Homosexual marriage is the creation, out of thin air, of something that never existed before. Then forcing that creation on the people using the courts.

Big difference

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I’m not arguing the merits of AR government policy in those days. I agree it was wrong. I’m just using what happened—and other historical and military examples—of why it is very difficult to use ordinary soldiers to enforce government will on a recalcitrant population, and why a government would need Old World style “security forces” with no love for the common people to accomplish that.

[Bluewater2015]

“Homosexual marriage is the creation, out of thin air, of something that never existed before. Then forcing that creation on the people using the courts”

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And you are absolutely right about that. When that decision came down yesterday, I almost felt like I lost a loved one, that’s how awful it is.