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   > MP>IMHO, one way the small groups do this is that they get enough people   
   swaye   
   >   >from the larger group, by playing on their feelings/emotions at the   
   expense   
   >   >of logic and facts.   
      
   > That is part of it, but if you can get the Gov't involved they can   
   > make laws and such that are totally unfair to most people to please   
   > smaller groups. Plus I think in a lot of cases ordinary people who   
   > want to be fair to everyone are often misled into agreeing with   
   > some things that are wildly unfair to the majority, which they are   
   > part of.   
      
   That last bit was what I was hinting at.  They play on their emotions in   
   order to mislead them into believing something is a bigger problem than it   
   is.   
      
   > A comment I made (in jest) a while back to illustrate the point   
   > was, I wonder what would happen if people also wanted to have   
   > a Straight Pride Parade every year too?  No doubt that would be   
   > considered totally illegal, an attack on non-straight people..   
      
   I don't know about illegal here, but it would be frowned upon to the point   
   where there would undoubtedly be counter-paraders/protesters showing up,   
   and it would be painted as homophobic, supremacist, etc.   
      
   > The person I was talking to also pointed out that in a lot of   
   > the Pride Parades, there is a good amount of full frontal nudity   
   > going on, which you'd be arrested for if you were anyone else.   
      
   I was not aware of that but, if that is the case, yes that would be   
   something that would certainly get you in trouble at a Straight Pride   
   Parade.  ;)   
      
   Mike   
      
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