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Originally Posted by smooth
AFAIK, our society doesn't traditionally ask the bashers whether they feel like they are doing something wrong.
Wouldn't it be sweet if racists got to dictate whether they were harming minorities?
Or domestic abusers whether their spouses and/or children were being physical harmed?
Or whether homophobic citizens were harming "gays" ?
Somehow that would be a very free nation indeed.
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I'm missing the point; probably just not getting the connection between your labels for people and what, if any, actions cause harm.
I don't know what makes someone a homophobe. If you support civil unions, but not marriage (as I guess both Bush and Kerry do), are you a homophobe? Are all of the people who voted against gay marriage homophobes regardless of their reasons?