magictoy

"A tad?" If this were a discussion on receipt of government assistance, I wouldn't ask for "losers" to chime in. I don't know whether 'chick meant it to be insulting, because it's pervasive throughout the media (and this forum) to label as a "homophobe" anyone who doesn't support whatever gay agenda is making the news. Had there been reason to suspect that she knew better, I would have used a stronger word than "bias."

To illustrate the obvious point that not all who disagree with gay marriage are homophobes. That fact does not appear to be known widely in some circles.

Marriage has been historically been defined as the union of a man and a woman, both from a religious and a legal standpoint. However, gays that garner the most press are unwilling to accept any legal arrangement, even one equivalent to marriage, that is not called marriage. To me, that indicates a lack of tolerance for others, and beyond that, a desire to rub the entire situation in the faces of those who don't agree with them. A compromise that gives the gay faction every legal right it wants, without calling it marriage, is acceptable to me, and every gay or straight I know, but not to the gays who make the most noise.

The gays I was referring to are seeking preferential treatment in a variety of arenas. I didn't want to range too far off-topic, so I didn't go into detail, but I was not referring to gay marriage.