MissDominae
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Dear Lindsey, violence is rarely, if ever, the solution to a problem. Tolerance, communication and a solidarity of viewpoint will onvince many more of the average people out there to change a law then threats of violence ever will. If you, for example, were to write to your Congressman and say, politely "these are my issues with Proposition 8 and this is where I see it causing problems for X class of people", I have no doubt that, even if they disagree with you, you would be given an equally polite and considered response and the lines of communication have then been opened. Making statements such as 'we may have to kill', 'taking it at the end of a gun" and "time for another revolution" are exacerbatory, inflammatory and will see you considered part of the lunatic fringe and - very possibly - passed on to the FBI for monitoring. Certainly, at the very least, such comments would see you ignored and nothing changed. Proposition 8 does not concern us here in Australia but I have read it and disagree with most of its precepts, just as in the past I have disagreed with precepts of law in this country. In those past times I and others here have joined together and, through a calm, reasoned and organised concerted effort, seen some of those laws changed, amended or repealed. You can rest assured that had we begun by threatening to storm Parliament house we would have achieved NOTHING. Your passion does you credit; your words do not. Please think on that. Blessings ....... Dominae (a non-Christian, non-Heterosexual, non-American)
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