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Our Scapegoats - Illegal Immigrants and Homosexuals

They seem to take turns on our magical wheel of scapegoats, don't they? Rockers make brief appearances on the wheel, as do video games and movies, but in recent years, there seems to be two scapegoats above all the rest: Illegal Immigrants and Homosexuals. When times are tough, things aren't going right, things aren't going the way the "Good Lord" intended, then it's time to point fingers, and who better to point fingers at than Illegal Immigrants and Homosexuals? Why do I say that? For the simple fact that the majority of this country does not support Illegal Immigrants or Homosexuals (this may be changing, however). We've become a little more tolerant of "gays," but I call it the quiet-tolerance, where people turn a blind eye to what might be construed as "gay." As long as they don't see it or hear about it, then they're fine. I honestly don't see that as a great deal of tolerance toward a group of people. It'd be ...