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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
It isn't a different thread because you said it in this thread. 
You can't effectively compare the relocation of whites to the suburbs, because their neighborhood surpassed the racial tipping point, to saying that homosexuals should "get over it or go away" if they feel that they aren't afforded the same rights that heterosexual citizens are. Sure, homosexuals can technically choose to relocate if they want certain rights, as some homosexuals have done. But to act like that's the only other alternative is as silly as the Americans who became Canadian citizens when Bush got re-elected (which was still a choice versus telling Americans "you tax payers don't like where America's headed? It's a hopeless cause so move to Canada for all we care. This is how it is. Get over it. Tax payers.").
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I only gave the white flight example because in previous posts Leslie Anne made some comment that if people don't like what is happening in their community / area then why should they leave. (I think that is the point she was trying to make
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Leslie Anne then came back and re-stated the issue of why should people leave where they live. The second example I gave her was how Houston was founded - people from back east wanted to live in a more tropical "paradise". Note: paradise in quotes because Houston was a humid, roach and mosquito infested dock on the banks of the Buffalo bayou...
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Leslie Anne continued to press the point about why should, or why do people leave then I gave her the white flight example.
Now, the connection Leslie Anne was trying to make between homosexuals getting married and people leaving an area I did not know.