Equality is Going TOO FAR

Is bigotry the default setting for the United States? Can it survive, if people are allowed to "exist" without constant hate? If it can't, does it really deserve to?  Ben Shapiro argues, at times coherently, that the new Respect For Marriage Act marks the beginning of the end, and that by allowing all people equal rights to marry, it will mean the fall of all churches, all morals, all social values, and every government. The assumption is that since conservative, religious "values" are so deeply ingrained in American culture and its institutions, it is impossible for them to ever change to accommodate such an unreasonable things as "equality." So it'll all come tumbling down - just like it did when all races got the right to vote, and when women got the right to vote, and when slavery was ended, and so on.  Because it's more important to protect religion, and peoples' rights to harm other people, than to protect people from being harmed, apparently.

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Is bigotry the default setting for the United States? Can it survive, if people are allowed to "exist" without constant hate? If it can't, does it really deserve to? Ben Shapiro argues, at times coherently, that the new Respect For Marriage Act marks the beginning of the end, and that by allowing all people equal rights to marry, it will mean the fall of all churches, all morals, all social values, and every government. The assumption is that since conservative, religious "values" are so deeply ingrained in American culture and its institutions, it is impossible for them to ever change to accommodate such an unreasonable things as "equality." So it'll all come tumbling down - just like it did when all races got the right to vote, and when women got the right to vote, and when slavery was ended, and so on. Because it's more important to protect religion, and peoples' rights to harm other people, than to protect people from being harmed, apparently.

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