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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Tue May 8, 2012, 09:58 PM May 2012

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Past is Prologue

The last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage, it was to ban interracial marriage.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/08/480530/north-carolina-voters-approve-marriage-inequality-amendment/

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Past is Prologue (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2012 OP

"forever prohibited" rurallib May 2012 #1

25 years from now this will be as incomprehensible as separate water fountains are to us now. alphafemale May 2012 #2

Yes. Chorophyll May 2012 #3

rurallib

(62,471 posts)

1. "forever prohibited"

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2012, 10:10 PM

May 2012

good thing forever doesn't mean what it sounds like.

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)

2. 25 years from now this will be as incomprehensible as separate water fountains are to us now.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2012, 10:30 PM

May 2012

I'm sure of this.

It is such a cruelty to tell people suffering now to have patience, though.

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)

3. Yes.

Reply to alphafemale (Reply #2)

Tue May 8, 2012, 10:36 PM

May 2012

I agree with you on both points. Completely.

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