# Why the hostility towards states that want to secede? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 16, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hostility-towards-states-that-want-to-secede/641174 "2012-11-16T10:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 179
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hostility-towards-states-that-want-to-secede/641174/179 "2012-11-16T18:18:22Z")
> [@BabaBooey](#): > > First of all, I don’t think LA would get too ridiculous on social issues. Second, and most importantly, why not let them? Again, it’s not difficult at all to move from one state to another. Any dumbass religious law would hurt the state. And third, do you believe that every state would enact similar intolerant laws? Absolutely not; however, the FedGov can affect everyone in the nation with one dumbass decision (something they do frequently). You keep saying that, but your beliefs about where an unfettered Louisiana would go on social issues is way out of line with the facts. Louisiana passed (in 2004) a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage even though gay marriage was already illegal. Consensual homosexual _activity_ is legal in Louisiana _only_ because of Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down such laws as unconstitutional. The Louisiana Senate passed [a blanket ban on abortions in 2006](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13154788/ns/politics/t/louisiana-senate-approves-abortion-ban/), and the House nearly passed a similar bill in 2011 (the only reason it didn’t was the loss of Medicaid funding that would result). David Duke received 39% of the gubernatorial vote in _1992_. Let me say that again: your state nearly elected a Klansman governor 20 years ago. He had already served in the state House for two years at that point. Most of your state is \*still \*under federal desegregation orders. Louisiana public schools [are allowed to teach “intelligent design”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Academic_Freedom_Act#Louisiana_act). What on earth can possibly give you the idea that Louisiana is a socially moderate state? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hostility-towards-states-that-want-to-secede/641174)._