Man , flair up so we can know how biased you are . <| sep |> That hardware and anything else federal was confederate property as of secession . Not only did the South pay 23 of US taxes , in the hierarchy of government the states are higher than the federal government . States have sovereignty . This goes back to the hateful States ' Rights argument . <| sep |> idk why people feel that they somehow understand the politics of turkey , erdogan is certainly a conservative , but he isnt the taliban . hell germany has been having a hard time passing gay marriage bc of the crazy conservative types in bavaria that have a political alliance with her partylets not even talk about eastern EU countries like poland or hungary . the ottoman empire , turkey ' s predecessor had decriminalized homosexuality in 1858 .