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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

MADem

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2. Pure symbolism, of course.

Reply to pscot (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2013, 11:10 AM

Dec 2013

But it's a step in the right direction. If the rather ancient Queen can make this point, there's hope.

People are stupid. It takes them a long time to learn stuff...and then, once they learn it, they manage to forget it in a generation or three, and then have to learn it all over again.

Hopefully we've evolved to the point where we don't have to learn these lessons anymore.

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