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Conservative White Christian Hatemonger Bryan Fischer Says Kidnapping Children From Same Sex Parents Is Like Freeing Slaves (TWEETS)

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If you are home-schooled by your Christian parents, or attend a voucher school, or are unlucky enough to attend a white Southern public school using Texas textbooks, here is a quick history minute about what the underground Railroad actually was:

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.^[2] The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.^[3] Other various routes led to Mexico or overseas.^[4] While an “underground railroad” running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution,^[5] the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.^[6] One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the “Railroad”.^[6]British North America, where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many points of access. More than 30,000 people were said to have escaped there via the network during its 20-year peak period,^[7] although U.S. Census figures account for only 6,000.^[8] The Underground Railroad fugitives’ stories are documented in the Underground Railroad Records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/08/hatemonger-bryan-fischer-kidnapping-children-from-same-sex-parents-is-like-freeing-slaves-tweets/

Homophobes, like pro-lifers, feel perfectly content to appropriate the horrors of slavery when it suits them.

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