Roe Vs Wade Overturned

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(08-10-2023, 11:48 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: The Catholic church has, in official capacity, been against gay marriage and birth control for decades. It's not a leap to think religious people, if they had the ability to, would make those things illegal. In the case of gay marriage, it would be really simple to make illegal since it was just legalized less than 10 years ago. There are still politicians working today who were vehemently against the legalization of gay marriage.

Interracial marriage I'm not worried about though. That has gone to the wayside of conservative stances at this point, thankfully.
At least in most cases. I'm sure there's still a few nutjobs out there that hate the idea of "miscegenation."

Which is great for me, considering my wife is black.

One of the many successes of the passage of time is the gradual and frustratingly slow elimination of blatant racism from the mainstream. Among many other slow and gradual creeps to the left that occur over time (women's rights, workers' rights, gay rights, trans rights etc).

Now it's a lot more subtle racism 

I think the appetite for overturning same sex marriage is far less then many believe.  I honestly don't think most people give it much thought.  You certainly don't see national stage politicians campaigning on the issue like you do with abortion.  Also same sex marriage has a much more solid foundation via the Constitution than then Roe decision.  You probably noticed both Bel and I, who are both pro-choice, pointed out that the argument in Roe was based on some rather tenuous legal logic.  As marriage carries with it major civil benefits, and for many people has nothing to do with any religion, it would be a major stretch for the SCOTUS to reverse course on that issue.  I agree about interracial marriage, that's a ship that has long since sailed.

As for racism in general, I see a lot more overt racism than you might expect.  But I do believe that people in general are far less racist then they used to be.  I'm definitely not a pro PC person, but my sister and I were talking just the other day about Sixteen Candles and "Long Duck Dong".  It's jaw dropping how overtly racist that was, intentionally or not.  You'd never see that today.