A small-but-vocal minority got prohibition passed, too. This is nothing new.
If you don't want some vocal group imposing its religious values on you, I suppose you'll have to be just as vocal. Of course, prohibition was quite profitable for a lot of Americans...
If you don't want some vocal group imposing its religious values on you, I suppose you'll have to be just as vocal.
Substitute "religous values" with "political desires", and I completely agree with you. Just look at gay marriage. The overwhelming majority of Americans want nothing to do with it, yet a very small, very vocal minority is trying to push its values on the rest of the country. It sucks when either side does it.
Actually my regime would make Gay Marriage mandatory. Gay marriage for everyone! Or else!
You have to remember that those folks belive that once all the anal sex reaches a certain point, God will come down and turn everyone into pillars of salt. So it does impact them directly. I don't know why they don't just come out and say that.
My regime's state run religion would not have pillars of salt. We'd have something safe. Like Smurfs. And since there's only one female Smurf, the mandatory gay marriage would
Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
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If you don't want some vocal group imposing its religious values on you, I suppose you'll have to be just as vocal. Of course, prohibition was quite profitable for a lot of Americans...
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Substitute "religous values" with "political desires", and I completely agree with you. Just look at gay marriage. The overwhelming majority of Americans want nothing to do with it, yet a very small, very vocal minority is trying to push its values on the rest of the country. It sucks when either side does it.
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They are not trying to make you all gay or lesbian they just want the same rights as everyone else.
If they are so misguided that they think marriage is a nifty thing by all means let them.
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You have to remember that those folks belive that once all the anal sex reaches a certain point, God will come down and turn everyone into pillars of salt. So it does impact them directly. I don't know why they don't just come out and say that.
My regime's state run religion would not have pillars of salt. We'd have something safe. Like Smurfs. And since there's only one female Smurf, the mandatory gay marriage would