KenH
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Can you?
It’s been a while but I think it was Post #89.
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Can you?
In Post #89 Revmitchell asked a question,It’s been a while but I think it was Post #89.
In response to your statement thatSo what if slavery was legal?
But the question before you isAnd slavery was legal. So what’s your point?
In his question he did not mention the bible, or a Christian, or second class citizens, or skin color.Unless, of course, you can show us a post in this thread advocating the use of the Bible to justify a Christian treating a person as a second-class citizen based on skin color.
Based on that, I figure you oppose the recent allowing of Melania Trump’s parents into the country based on her relationship with them.
I'm not. I'm trying to get you to stop deflecting and answer the question I have asked of you several times.I don’t know why you are running interference for Mitchell.
There is nothing to defend. You deflected by saying that slavery was legal in the early days of our republic. He asked the semantic equivalent of "what has that to do with the discussion?" He asked you a question. A question you have never answered, among several others.Let him defend his post himself...except we both know he can’t.
Thus your continued deflection and obfuscation.Thus, your interference and tag teaming attempt.
I'm sure you do but the plural of 'anecdote' isn't 'data'. Statistics/figures pleaseUh, I look around. I live here, remember? I see African American owned businesses every day. In fact I patronize them every day.
The government had nothing to do with the cultural evolution of the US. It was the people.[/quote ] So there wasn't a Civil Rights Act?
Are you suggesting no African American died prior to the Civil Rights Act?How many African Americans do you know who died trying to buy or sell their goods or services?
Right, so here was a group of immigrants who refused to assimilate to the host cultureColonial government was English. Colonial culture was English.
It was the government who had put up the discriminatory barriers in the first place and - and this is not to diminish the role of the Civil Rights Movement - the government therefore had a role to play in removing thoseI have to admit I am troubled by your (Matt's - Ken posted between Matt's post and my reply) insistence that African Americans lacked the ability and will to achieve great progress on their own but insist that they had to sit in the lap of the government (made up of old white men, remember) in order to achieve anything.
Why is it that liberals always want to take credit for the efforts and sacrifices of others?
That's not deflection, it's the legitimate answering of assertions made eg: the complaint that Muslims don't assimilate (well, neither do the Amish); the call for Christian stores not to serve 'married' gays because they contravene God's law.of marriage (well, so do remarried divorcees), and the claim that being rich means you're a 'better class of immigrant' (see Apostle James).Like how Matt asserted we should deport the Amish. And when he said we should be happy with stores refusing service to remarried divorcees. And when he wondered what the Apostle James would have made of such shenanigans by the rich and powerful.
That kind of deflection?
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The issue is not about serving particular people, but about catering to certain practices. Whether the person is homosexual, divorced, atheist, Muslim, etc, does not factor in. But producing something that advocates for sexual perversion, another religion, objectionable politics, etc, does fall into the category of freedom of religion and speech.That's not deflection, it's the legitimate answering of assertions made eg: the complaint that Muslims don't assimilate (well, neither do the Amish); the call for Christian stores not to serve 'married' gays because they contravene God's law.of marriage (well, so do remarried divorcees), and the claim that being rich means you're a 'better class of immigrant' (see Apostle James).
All perfectly legit responses highlighting the inconsistency in the original assertions
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