Quote:Some people have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a modern society where bigotry is not tolerated. It's understandable to want to hold onto the past. A lot of people are not as willing to accept intolerance as a basic tenet of life as others seem to be. 

 

I'm of the mindset that legislation cannot stop people from being morons in any such case. On a basic level, you're absolutely right in that people should not be discriminated against for being different (especially in situations in which that cannot be changed such as race, gender or sexual orientation) but some disassociated lawmaker isn't going to change Joe Bigot's mindset. They're still going to cling to their backwater views on how other people should live their lives and there isn't anything you nor I can do to change it.

 

What we can do, however, is not be bothered with such people.

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