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Searching for a bright side to same-sex-marriage bans

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  • Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:59 PM

    Same-Sex Marriage

    These bans on same-sex marriage are remniscent of the bans on interracial marriage in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Whenever social change is imminent, reactionary idiots try to stop it. They always fail.

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