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spazzmann

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 10:09 AM Oct 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on October 18, 1929

The Persons Case, a legal milestone in Canada, was decided. Five women from Alberta, later known as the Famous Five, asked the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the legal status of women. Some decisions of Magistrate Emily Murphy had been challenged on the basis that she was not a legal person. . > continued http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm

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Today in Peace and Justice history on October 18, 1929 (Original Post) spazzmann Oct 2012 OP
Letting women be people is a slippery slope. We need to reverse this immediately! ieoeja Oct 2012 #1
 

ieoeja

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1. Letting women be people is a slippery slope. We need to reverse this immediately!
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:06 PM
Oct 2012

“This is a slippery slope. In addition to that, at what point are we going to be OK declaring inanimate objects people. Can I declare this table or this, you know, clock, a person? Can we declare dogs people?” - Rebecca Kleefisch (R), Lt Gov-WI

“I’m just sick and tired of society having to adjust to every little alternate lifestyle or little whim of someone who thinks they’re different,” State Rep. Richard Floyd (R-TN) says. “We’ve got the tail wagging the dog. If things go in the future like Washington wants them to go, people will be declaring their dogs and cats and horses are people. We can’t continue to let society go down a slippery slope of depravity and survive as a society. We can’t do it.”


Disclaimer: above quotes substitute “declaring … people” for “marrying”.
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