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Originally Posted by martinguerre
I feel badly for people who are told this...but it again becomes a right to swing your fist stopping at my nose issue. If they in error, believe that God's message to them is not love, but rather condemnation...i'll do my best to tell them otherwise. If they begin preaching that destructive message to others...or using the power of the state to enforce it...
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Then vote and campaign against them. Like you do with every other politician who holds beliefs you disagree with.
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Again, you're speaking of a category i haven't really seen. Do they exist, i'm sure of it. But in American political life, its rare to the point of non-existance as far as i know.
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I'll admit I'm heading into the realm of speculation now, but it would make sense that you wouldn't know of the ones who don't take risks.
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I don't know how you authentically integrate the hatred of society into your being, and start a witch hunt for people just like you.
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It needn't involve hatred or a witchhunt. That was the point I was trying to make.
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That's my point. If you can't make these arguments without being a racists, why can a person make them and not be a homophobe?
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Not be a bigot?
Because there is no obvious and certain bigotry on the surface of some of the arguments I've listed. There's obvious possible bigotry; they
could hold these positions because they consider same-sex relationships inferior. But there's no bigotry that's both necessarily tied to the belief and obvious. At least not as I see it. I see the bigotry being necessarily tied to the belief if you dig deeply enough (at least as far as I've dug), but not automatic as if it's a simple equation of "anti-gay marriage = anti-gay". There's nuances that prevent that kind of simplicity, even if the nuances can be torn down.