If you support your candidate, do not be ashamed to defend his positions

[DuctapeFatwa]

If your candidate supports the principle of a separate legal status for a certain group in a certain context, and you agree with his position, please accord him the respect of defending your shared position as one of principle, and your candidate as a man of principle.

You do not do him a service to try to say that his view is other than what it is, or suggest that it is just this one group in this one situation, as if he were a man who despised a particular group.

As if he were not a man of principle.

Please do not try to lump him together with white segregationists of yore. That does not "resonate" as well as you might think.

This is not a difficult question.

It is a simple question of principle.

Equal protection, equal status under the law, for you, for me, for the gay couple across the street, for the Pakistani family next door, for the African-American around the corner and the red-headed left-handed Lithuanian goose farmer one block over.

In marriage, education, employment, housing, health care, service at Denny's.

Equal. Not second-class, not two tiers, not separate but equal.

Equal. Or not.

You are either for it, or you are against it, according to your principles. (sorry chimpy) :)

Whatever those principles are, respect them, respect your candidate, respect yourself enough to stand up for your opinion.

If your, or your candidate's position shames you so much you feel that you must try to disguise it, that is something to take up with your candidate, and yourself, not people who disagree with you.

Disclaimer: I do not support any of the candidates

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. My candidate clearly supported equal protection under the law

It was right there next to the sentence everyone else latched onto while ignoring the rest of his quote as is common lately.

That's why I am for early intervention in reading programs.
IF more were done to make sure people could fucking read, I am sure they wouldn't be missing the crux of his statement and latching onto one tiny set of words.

[Sam Lowry]

2. what was the whole quote?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. And do not be surprised when people misrepresent them either.

[tobius]

4. My feelings

entirely. "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
                                  -- John Adams