Difficult Civil Rights Question

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

I did. Your post isn't about the legal issue that the thread is about. Civil rights is a legal issue.

Civil Rights is also a moral and social issue. If I choose to post on the moral or social issue rather than the legal issue, that is MY right and you have NO right to tell me that I don't have this right because you have no authority over me.

If one is to only consider the legality of any issue, then one would be in a very tenuous position, particularly if the issue affects different people in different ways. Laws are created, ammended and rewritten entirely on the basis that society is constantly evolving and viewpoints changing. If people in said society do not express their personal views on social issues, the law remains the same and it is likely that some sectors of that society will be discriminated against.

So, pardon me for not arguing the law as it stands now. Perhaps I should simply have said that the law is wrong and I believe that no person who is a member of a group which advocates discrimination against another [group] should be entitled to hold a position of authority in any capacity for a government office.

You can argue the legality of the issue all you like as it stands now. It would probably be more beneficial if you decided to have the courage to simply state that racism is wrong in any form and that people need to be taught that there are better ways of living.