The far left don't own the body and soul of one of the two political parties, they are also tiny in number so have little/no political power. None of these is true with respect to the far right fundamentalists. Or are you going to go wacko right, and equate raising the minimum wage or making college tuition free with sponsoring gay conversion therapy?
Can you really blame them? I mean I assume you're straight, you can think about something that you cannot relate to objectively and apply detached reasoning to it.
To others who have often struggled with it growing up, while I wouldn't say it's the sole part of my identity, it definitely plays a large part in feeling passionate about it. I think you're doing gay people and yourself a disservice by asking them to solely argue rationality rather than with feelings.
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta ass."
I'm a British gay Muslim Pakistani American citizen, ask me how that works! (terribly)
You think bigotry is a bad thing because of it's stigma and not what it means?
Moot... Just FYI... Sorry
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Without feeling, marriage is defined by a marriage license, that combines quite a few property and next of kin laws, cutting down buracracy of many legal forms. As defined by law, there is absolutely no reason to deny gay people a marriage license. It's a simple legal process, that doesn't have anything else attached to it. Everything from appeals to religion all the way down to 'think of the children' are completley irrelevant to a marriage license... There is no argument against gay marriage that is at all logical...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
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Because the goal of a troll is to get you infracted. As soon as you bite the bait, they are waiting to report you. Did you report the guy you are talking about?
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I'd say 99% of gay people are born and raised by straight couples. See the problem with your assertion?
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi