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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:01 AM
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Gay Marriage Amendment Compared To Nazism
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/020705vaNazi.htm

"There is nothing ennobling about Senate Joint Resolution 337. It is xenophobia that led to the rise of Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy. It is homophobia that brings us to this place in time today," said Mamie E. Locke (D-Hampton).

Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax County) went further, saying Virginia has begun stigmatizing people because of their sexuality just as the Nazis did. Jews, she said, were required in concentration camps to wear yellow patches; political prisoners wore red ones; and homosexuals got pink.

But, Sen. Kenneth Cuccinelli (R-Fairfax County) said there was nothing wrong with discriminating against gays.

Cuccinelli, noting that homosexuality was illegal for most of Virginia's history until the U.S. Supreme Court forced the state to get rid of the law denounced what he called "the tyranny of judges".

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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:06 AM
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1. Cuccinelli is a Cancer
Just like every other christian conservative in this country who hates in the name of Jesus Christ.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:45 AM
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4. Cuccinelli is my State Senator
What a blight on the state that guy is...as is every other homophobic prick who voted for that thing...

What a disgrace...I'm ashamed I live here!!!
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:06 AM
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2. Damn those tyrannical judges
daring to insist that the Freedom and Liberty enshrined in the Constitution and it's Bill of Rights should apply to everyone!!

How dare they?!?!?
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 11:26 AM
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3. outrageous, ain't it?
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 05:16 PM
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5. More information about Nazi's rationalized legal position re:homosexuals
<snip>
In the mid-1920's the government reacted to these developments by attempting to enforce the laws more vigorously and to pass more restrictive legislation. In 1929, after a couple of years of debate and discussion, the attempt failed by a narrow majority in the Reichstag. Homosexuals felt that a major victory had been achieved. However, in all of the discussion, a clear voice was heard from the Nazi deputies in the Assembly who voiced the conviction that it was the Jews who were leading this movement in an attempt to undermine the morality of the German people. The racial theme in their position also emerged in their argument that homosexuality has a detrimental impact on desired Aryan family size and population increase -- thus impacting German strength. Therefore, homosexuality was incompatible with racial purity. This was later to be one of Himmler's major arguments. That voice was to become very loud and clear when the Nazi Party gained control in 1933.
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The Holocaust/Shoah page, Ben S. Austin: http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/homobg.html
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FaerieWizard Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 06:46 PM
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6. The most outrageous quote from the right . . .
From the washingtonpost.com . . .

Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R-Fairfax) told colleagues to adopt the amendment and push back against the "tyranny of judges that has largely come to pass in the last 30 or 40 years."

"The homosexual left has been on the attack against marriage and family for 40 years, and we've been taking it," Cuccinelli said in an interview last week. "If you're going to start a war, if you're going to invade a country, expect a counterattack. All we're doing is regaining lost ground."

I guess all failed marriages in Va are the fault of gays.

~The FaerieWizard
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Stepup2 Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-05 06:47 PM
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7. Just when I had my self convinced
I was being paranoid.

Then the religious wrong uses this sort of pretzel logic use GLBT tax dollars to convince others their hate is justified.

After all, it is 2005, I keep telling myself. We are making strides this is just backlash oh I've had all of these arguments bouncing in my head.

So it seems it is jackboot season...... again
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