Well, if anything this thread has separated those of us who can debate intelligently, and effectively articulate an original thought, from those of us who are The Mad Dog.


I mean...just incredible, the amount of thoughtless parroting of the boilerplate Fox News fear-mongering rhetoric.




Kudos to Kotite and Bunny for some really eloquent and well articulated thoughts on the matter.


Now, being that I have political tendencies from both sides of the aisle, I was looking forward to a good conservative debate on the subject. Sadly, all that was available from posters representing the right was slippery slope arguments involving pedophilia and Nazi Germany. Because damnit, if the potential for child rape isn't enough to get you scared, genocide surely should!


BOOGETY-BOO! The gays are coming! Everyone with "tradition/judgemental" values run scared, because when the gays get done with your children, they are going to line you up in the streets and march you to the furnace.


And when The Mad Dog comes to put me in my place (masterfully and intelligently) by LOL'ng and labeling me the new four letter word- Liberal, I'll just point out that there are plenty of issues that I lean conservative on.


It just so happens that I believe strongly in equality, and I am absolutely disgusted by institutionalized discrimination, no matter the reason or alleged belief that supposedly grants you carte blanch to pass judgement and dictate how people live their own lives.


Shame on anyone who hides behind some ambiguous, amorphous label such as "my beliefs" in order to justify attempting to deprive someone of their equality, strictly because that person doesn't look, talk or act like them.

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