{"id":2744,"date":"2010-02-08T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:45:57","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/02\/08\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that boggles my mind<\/em> sometimes is that there are people living who witnessed racial discrimination as codified in the nation’s laws. Crazier still, when I say that “there are people living” who remember a time when the law actually required<\/em> racial discrimination in many places, I’m not referring to a handful of octogenarians who grew up with horse-drawn carriages. I’m talking about people in their 40s. That’s insane<\/em> to me, largely because it defies belief that a nation founded on the premise of all men being created equal would have been so shortsighted as to pass laws doing nothing but promoting hate and prejudice. I could kind of understand if it was in 1850 or something, but it was still happening in the 1960s, and was still a giant controversy a mere decade before my birth.<\/p>\n

So it brings a smile to my face to realize that odds are pretty good that in a decade or two, I’m going to be telling people about a time when the country had laws against gay people. People are going to look at me like I’m full of crap when I tell them that we wouldn’t even let gays serve in the military<\/a>, even when comparatively backwards nations did. (Russia permits “well-adjusted” homosexuals to serve, for example. What that means, or how it’s not terribly offensive, escapes me.) I’ll tell people that freedom-loving Americans\u00a0 — and churches which also taught about God’s love for everyone — protested allowing homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, and people will think I’m nuts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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