Step back and think about  it.

Until now our National policy was to officially designate one group of our fellow citizens as inferior.While at the same time braying about our "Exceptional status".  Yeah, we were exceptional.

And now  not any more. And give me a break. Spare me the litany of whatever  weeks it's going to take, it should be shorter.And Holder should be doing something  And  Obama should issue the Executive Order  in Sanscript or whatever.The bill's passed. Signed. It's law.On Dec 31 2011 it will have been many months since there will have still been some group it was was OK to proclaim- or just casually dismiss- as not as good as we are..

There always has been up to now.  Here and everyplace else:Lepers,, Untouchables , Jews , Catholics, the Welsh, Quakers, Blacks, Southerners.  Often several at once.. And  mostly with some  insulting appelation . Whatever dagblog's policy, repeating them here even for historical perspective would serve no purpose. We all know them and repeating any one of them will hurt somebody... Why do that?

Finally, the last officially designated  inferior group  was the gays.In this enlightened year of  2010 - until two weeks ago- ,this City on a Hill's official policy was  that these neighbors of ours were  not only not  equal to everyone else, they were bad..Having them around was bad for anyone who was in contact with them . Why? For the same reason that was true of lepers, untouchables- you get the idea. Not just a medieval bit of unreason but something much older than that. "Those Trojans, you try to treat them like normal people then they steal your....."

We've finally stopped. I could say it was long overdue but that would be mean spiritied.

 We did it. It was a great victory for the politicians and administration executives, and for the  Country. 

When the children in  2110  are taught about 2010, it'll  be mentioned..Maybe some other things  too, But that'll  be taught  for sure and they'll  think how quaint we were... 

I'll drink to that.

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