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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
That's still really weak. It's not "using the specter of gay marriage as a scare tactic", gay marriage really is seen as a danger to society in much of the republican party. It's not a scare tactic if a danger is genuinely believed to exist. It's a huge stretch to try to find demonization in this.
As for the Bible thing, someone correct me if I missed something, but it seems like a metaphor for organized prayer being banned in public schools. If so, that's much, much less of a stretch than the 'demonizing gays' thing.
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Lot's of people really believed that Reds were infiltrating all corners of our society and trying to undermine American society, so I guess McCarthy didn't use any scare tactics, then.
Are you really saying that it is completely unreasonble to respond to Republicans working against numerous gay issues--from marriage to employment to protection from crime--by saying that Republicans are anti-gay or demonizing gays; yet its fine for the Republicans to say that the Democrats are going to ban the Bible, as long as its just a metaphor for Democrat opposition to prayer in school?