Richie and Plong -

In reference to Richie's post, "For the longest time the voting majority of this country didn't want to give voting rights to women, or human rights to African-Americans. Should we have acquiesced to the judgement of the majority then?

The Founding Fathers of the USA did not include either civil rights to African-Americans or voting to women in the Constitution. It was not in the Bill of Rights, either. The uber-conservatives are always quoting things from the Founding Fathers like they were gospel but lots of their ideas left entire groups of citizens out of the picture.

It was the "liberals" who fought for civil rights and women's right to vote - not the uber-conservatives.

I am glad to see that RichieLion has seen the light and is coming over from the Dark Side.