http://www.queerty.com/gay-pride-war-in-israel-20080129/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:38:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.queerty.com/gay-pride-war-in-israel-20080129/#comment-38294 M Shane Walsh Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:32:26 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/gay-pride-war-in-israel-20080129/#comment-38294 I'm happy that the Israelie gays are standing their ground. i don't know that their is any connection between democracy and gay pride. We err in the belief that democracy itself guarantees all kinds of freedoms. Quite the contrary. Back in the 1830's when Alexis de Toqueville was traveling through America, writting, he noted that one of the greatest dangers to our freedoms was democracy-- it means no more than majority rule, which can be poisonous and descriminative. Remember that it was a democracy that determined to execute Socrates. I’m happy that the Israelie gays are standing their ground. i don’t know that their is any connection between democracy and gay pride. We err in the belief that democracy itself guarantees all kinds of freedoms. Quite the contrary. Back in the 1830′s when Alexis de Toqueville was traveling through America, writting, he noted that one of the greatest dangers to our freedoms was democracy– it means no more than majority rule, which can be poisonous and descriminative. Remember that it was a democracy that determined to execute Socrates.

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