originally posted in:Secular Sevens
Why didn't they just move to a state that allowed gay marriage?
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What do you do when there's nowhere left to go?
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[quote]Why didn't they just move to a state that allowed gay marriage?[/quote]Telling people to pack up and move is never a satisfactory answer. Life isn't that simple where you can just pack up and move to another state easily. For instance, you may have a job that requires you to be in the state. Even if it was easy though, that doesn't address the problem(s) at hand. If everyone just ran away from the problems in their state, that state would never progress.
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Picking up and moving is incredibly easy if you don't have a job. I have done it [i]a lot[/i]
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I assumed it would be simpler to pack up and move to a state that is packed with similar thinking, or alike people. A state with many more homosexuals would be able to achieve much more than a state with few homosexuals and much much more traditionalist marriage people.
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[quote]I assumed it would be simpler to pack up and move to a state that is packed with similar thinking, or alike people. A state with many more homosexuals would be able to achieve much more than a state with few homosexuals and much much more traditionalist marriage people.[/quote]I still think you make it seem too easy to pack up and move. Besides not every Texan homosexual is in a position where it is easy to move to another state. However, that is all not very relevant if you read the last sentences of my previous post. If people, in general, ran away from the problems of their states, to go to states that didn't have those problems, their home state wouldn't progress. It doesn't actually solve problems or get anything done. If everyone gay person in the United States moved to Massachusetts when they legalized same-sex marriage, I highly doubt as many states would have gay marriage as today. Not to mention how ridiculously impractical such an exodus would have been.
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I dunno. Everything would sort itself out, all gays would have a place free of others, and vice versa, so everyone wouldn't be half-happy.
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Okay, if you are actually entertaining the idea that the gays should have all just moved to Massachusetts once it was legalized gay marriage, then I don't think I can have a rational discussion with you. You clearly have no common sense. Fun fact: Gay people aren't exclusively born to gay parents, so this ridiculous exodus would never stop.
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I have no common sense, just because I think it would be better if people moved to places that would be more accepting of them? Yeah they'd have to move and get new jobs, but then people who don't like gays could simply move to the states not accepting of gays. State full of happy gays, state full of happy others, everything works out.
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Edited by Ryan: 8/7/2013 3:42:36 AMYou have no common sense since that will obviously not work...at all. You seriously don't see the logistical problems with it? If people thought like you, racism would still be extremely prevalent in the southern states to the same degree as the past.
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Racism would be prevalent how? If people want to go somewhere, they will, all the immigrants came to the US to be happy. To leave for one state, not a country, would not be all that hard.
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Ugh...it's like talking to a fleshjack.
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Please refrain from name-calling as I've shown you the same courtesy, and just explain to me the racism prevalence...
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Edited by Ryan: 8/7/2013 4:12:20 AMIt wasn't name-calling, it was a reference to another poster. I have conceded that you are absolutely correct. All gay people should have been forced to live in Massachusetts. All minorities should have been forced to live in the northeast. All of the straight white male cisgendered people can live where ever they want since they are nearly free from discrimination everywhere. Sounds -blam!-ing perfect.
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Huh? What I'm saying is why would anyone go somewhere they're not wanted, or hated, and try to change the law, it would be much easier to go somewhere else that you're accepted, or will have no problem. And sexual preference and skin color are two very different things.
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Your logic can be applied to both.
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Edited by Seggi: 8/7/2013 5:42:54 AMExcept all the people who are unable to move for whatever reason (or might, you know, actually be fond of that place), and all of the LGBT children born into the hypothetical homophopia.