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Post by veya_victaous Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:45 am

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/07/3576918/top-conservative-magazine-compares-marriage-equality-to-slavery-a-slow-motion-dred-scott/

The Supreme Court’s gradual embrace of marriage equality is “a slow-motion Dred Scott for the twenty-first century” according to the conservative National Review. Dred Scott was a Supreme Court decision from shortly before the Civil War, which justified slavery on the grounds that people of African descent “had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order” who are “so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Marriage equality, by contrast, is the idea that people should be able to marry the person that they love.

The comparison between gay rights and a legacy of human bondage that reduced millions of innocents into mere property was made by Matthew J. Franck, a political scientist with the anti-gay Witherspoon Institute and a regular contributor to the National Review. Witherspoon helped fund a discredited study on parenting by gay and straight couples that opponents of gay rights used in an attempt to convince convince courts to rule against marriage equality. Although this study was published in a scholarly journal, the journal conducted an internal audit reevaluating the study after it became the subject of widespread criticism. That audit eventually concluded that the study was “bullshit.”

Franck’s suggestion that treating all couples with equal dignity is similar to forcing human beings into a life where their spouse or children can be sold away at the whim of a white master came as part of a larger piece about the Supreme Court’s decision not to consider several marriage equality cases. After labeling legal arguments for equality “rhetorical twaddle,” Franck concludes with an appeal to the Republican Party’s history:

The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s with its first platform (in the 1856 presidential election) denouncing slavery and polygamy, both of which the party wanted the federal government to outlaw where it had power to do so, in the territories. These were the “twin relics of barbarism.” One year later, after Dred Scott, the Republican Party added the defense of republican government against judicial tyranny to its portfolio of fundamental principles. The GOP was founded as a party standing for human liberty, the sanctity of the family, and a free self-governing people. As we re-enact a slow-motion Dred Scott for the twenty-first century, it remains to be seen whether any political party in America will continue to stand for those principles.

By “human liberty” and “the sanctity of the family,” of course, Franck appears to mean that families should be denied the opportunity to unite under a marriage.
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Post by Ben Reilly Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:01 am

Interesting insight into the roots of the GOP. The modern Republican Party members distance themselves from anything related to social justice, especially for black people, since they have come to see the entirety of black people as thieves and thugs who want to take what they have, led by Obama. You really never hear a modern Republican who is proud of Abraham Lincoln, who after all abolished slavery, made black people citizens and used more federal-government force than any president before or since.

This story illustrates the paradox at the heart of the modern Republican Party. They really, really want to say they stand for freedom. Yet their desire to see the government crush any chance that homosexual citizens might have at the ideal of "the pursuit of happiness" reeks of the same totalitarianism they pretend to hate. Thus, they tend to lose the support of anybody who recognizes their hypocrisy, which is increasingly inevitable in this age when nearly every voter can see what all their significant candidates have said to even a small audience in a remote place.

From things like this, everyone can see that they don't stand for any logically consistent theory or philosophy at all. They're just another group among many trying to use the force of government to preserve their own prefered way of life. I would be fine with them having their own opinions about how people should live if they weren't trying to legislate their way of life so that all Americans had to comply with their ideals.
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Post by Original Quill Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:15 pm

The Republican Party has never really opposed slavery or championed the cause of African Americans. In the 1850's there were two Americas: a mercantile and manufacturing North; and a cash-cropping South dependent upon slave labor. The Republican Party, founded in the North (Wisconsin) came into being around the time of the Missouri compromise, 1854. Because of the righteousness of the cause, slavery was more comfortable to talk about than economic competition.

Republicans underwent their most significant change in 1964, around the candidacy of Barry Goldwater and the passage of the Civil Rights Act. A guy named Lee Atwater, led a Republican Party movement to attract the American South into the party, utilizing the racist sentiments of the South. This was known as the Southern Strategy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater It worked. The Republican Party has tipped racist ever since.

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