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Jarred
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
I’d add the following to your list things that need to take a higher priority: affordable health care, protecting children and teens from bullying, and ensuring that people can’t be thrown out of their homes or fired from their jobs for discriminatory reasons. And yes, we can work on all of those things and marriage equality. Because we can work on more than one thing at a time.
Hyhybt
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
Maybe they just really badly misread Matthew 13?
Mark F.
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
Yes, there are more important things to me than marriage equality as well. So much so that I’m absolutely refusing to vote for Obama.
rusty
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
A great review
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Jim Hlavac
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
The anti-gay tangled web of (half)thoughts is rather complex — mostly because they are fighting a “homosexuality” that they’ve imagined, with the fear that of the potential for all heteros to change to “homosexual” — but they can’t fight gay folks, because we’re just too boring and normal.
But web-tangle wise, their take on why people are gay is a doozy: in the womb we acquire an undefined, but unnatural predisposition, and a biological, but not natural, prenatal inexplicable hormone bath, that may or may not be caused by some unknown, unexplored, and unnatural genetic basis, which requires too a post natal set of conditions: we have an environment that’s never explained, as well as an overbearing, too close, but too distant or absent father, and/or an overbearing, or cloying, or too far, absent or uncaring mother, and the birth order may or may not have some effect, and as soon as the gay adult down the block molests us, and recruits us, we shall choose to be gay, for what the Archbishop of the Armed forces says is “largely unexplained reasons.”
With that sort of clarity, webs don’t even exist to be tangled.
Richard Rush
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
Yes, there are more important things to me than marriage equality as well. So much so that I’m absolutely voting for Obama.
Gene in L.A.
August 31st, 2012 | LINK
It doesn’t matter whom you refuse to vote for; what matters is whom you do vote for.
Reed Boyer
September 1st, 2012 | LINK
Ah, Rob Tisinai, you may not write as often as others, but when you DO . . . it’s prime stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Neil
September 2nd, 2012 | LINK
I have a sense the way NOM would eat their cake and have it too on the conflicting arguments stated above is to say that ordinary gays don’t care about same-sex marriage but that the issue is led by radical extremists.
They would probably see it as: “Gays are not like us. They don’t form proper families. They’re not fit for marriage like the naturally ordered heterosexual. They don’t even care about it. Some radicals demand that everyone be that way (after the fashion of Haight-Ashbury free love acid head/social anarchists). If they had their way the natural order would be destroyed and chaos would ensue.”
They see gays as a threat to the natural order and believe we mostly agree with them. They think, “heterosexuality, natch. Everybody knows that. Marriage=straight=natural order, Mom, Dad, kids and pets. Gays=disorder, debauched sex, sometimes with pets.
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