I'm all in favor of that.
You missed the point, though. If you live in a country that separates church from state, you are legally not allowed to make or unmake laws because of your religion. My point is, this apparently to be emphasized in primary school, because people seem not to get it.
Can you truly say that we've been civilized just because of the acceptance of homosexual unions because in various other categories, we've made a bit of a backtrack in my point of view.
Erm, no, I never said that. I said some countries are
more civilized than others. I've never said any one country is awesomely civilized, or uncivilized savages.
If this is some attempt to paint me as a racist then it's not working.
... it isn't. Why the fuck would you even think that?
I'm going with the benefit of the doubt that plenty of Southern slave owners were pretty pissed at having the government come down on them and take away their source of free labor. That was the right thing to do but doing so in that manner instilled a hatred in them that eventually led (once the Union withdrew their forces) to Southern state governments taking away the rights of black Americans and put civil rights back for another hundred if not more years.
What makes you think the civil rights movement was put back? For all you know, they would've kept the slaves for another 100 years, and peacefully kept them inferior to white people for 500 more years.
I am unable to provide an arguement to you because the events of the past had happened in the way they did. I am only speaking in the hypothetical had some things been different, we might have been better off.
It's like us not going into Vietnam. No doubt liberals would instantly jump and praise LBJ as more of a great man than he already was. Had that conflict not happened, our economy wouldn't had pit fallen in the 1970s as it did. Perhaps our country would've had a national health insurance system but it didn't happen.
I can't say anything to convince you as you can for me. Can we agree to disagree?
Again, it could've been better, or it could've been worse, I agree. However, you're plan would be to wait for people to be more tolerant. That might or might not work. My plan is to *make* people respect human rights. Regardless of any bitterness, I'm pretty sure rights will be (for the most part) respected, and that the repercussions will be temporary, if perhaps long-lasting.