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jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 08:19 PM Oct 2014

New anti-gay-marriage tactic: Fight it on 13th Amendment grounds

This is in the October 31 edition of my newspaper:

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_5a2b384e-6094-11e4-a9f1-93d130f49dff.html

Brief synopsis because this is really weird: One of Coeur d'Alene's more fervent preachers is pooling lawyers and business owners to fight our city's anti-discrimination ordinance on grounds that it violates three different amendments to the Constitution: the First, Thirteenth and Fourteenth.

Skip over the First and Fourteenth Amendment claims and focus on the Thirteenth: they actually believe that having to serve people they don't like amounts to involuntary servitude.

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New anti-gay-marriage tactic: Fight it on 13th Amendment grounds (Original Post) jmowreader Oct 2014 OP
The Chewbacca Defense is next. Glassunion Oct 2014 #1
Wow shenmue Oct 2014 #2
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