Re:Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage
by learc83 on Friday July 27, 2012 @04:10PM
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>That assumes that the people opposing gay marriage would even consent to the notion of equal civil unions, something
That's a good point, like I said it's just a proposal and would need to gain public support.
> Should we make a law making it illegal to draw pictures of Mohammed, since that offends some people's religious sensibilities?
Nope, because that limits the speech of the drawer.
However if a large group of people objected to the government's use of the word crusade to refer to say some kind of program called "crusade against hunger", I wouldn't have a problem discussing changing it from "crusade against hunger" to "fight against hunger"
The key difference is no one's rights are being violated, the government is just changing a word.
If the government stopped referring to policemen as policemen and policewomen, but started using the term police officer that's fine with me. It doesn't affect what I do. It doesn't stop me from calling them policemen and policewomen.
That's a good point, like I said it's just a proposal and would need to gain public support.
> Should we make a law making it illegal to draw pictures of Mohammed, since that offends some people's religious sensibilities?
Nope, because that limits the speech of the drawer.
However if a large group of people objected to the government's use of the word crusade to refer to say some kind of program called "crusade against hunger", I wouldn't have a problem discussing changing it from "crusade against hunger" to "fight against hunger"
The key difference is no one's rights are being violated, the government is just changing a word.
If the government stopped referring to policemen as policemen and policewomen, but started using the term police officer that's fine with me. It doesn't affect what I do. It doesn't stop me from calling them policemen and policewomen.