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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks
Why are any of you people any less bigoted than the anti-gay poster? You rail against his opinions and make judgements on his character.
He simply made a choice, for whatever reason, to think this way. But why couldn't his nature have led him to this choice also? Saying things are all right just based on genetic tendencies is kind of a slippery slope don't you think?
I don't agree that gay folk are bad, but he's got the right to think so, or our freedoms of speech and religion are just so much crap on a cracker. If we have a right to believe something, then we have a right to believe that everybody else is wrong. Otherwise we will all have to believe all of the same things. Who then gets to choose what is right? I guess our benevolent government will figure out what is best for us to believe and instil all of these things into our children for us. Etc......
Intolerance is also a choice, live with it. When people are free to choose, then they will make choices we don't agree with. Some of those choices will make us mad, one way or another.
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I am more than happy for him to feel any way he wants to about gays. I am more than happy for him to shout from the rooftops how he feels about gays. He can hate them to the core, and join a church that won't let them get married and I'm happy for both him and his church and every member to feel that way. I disapprove, but I'll defend their right to say it.
There are two problems, though.
The first is he's wrong, and while beliefs are something I'm happy to let people express and have no matter what they are, ignorance and beliefs based on ignorance are dangerous. I have never met a gay person who expressed his sexual orientation as a choice, just as I've never expressed mine as a choice. It supposes that every person at some point in his life has a moment where he says "Am I attracted to girls or guys?" and then decides on one, and that gay people pick improperly and ought to train themselves to pick the other, because that's the "right" choice.
Second, he wants to deprive people of something which our courts have described as a "fundamental right" because he believes it is wrong and because he thinks they have some sort of agency about who turns them on. I like speech. I like people to express themselves. I don't like it when expression infringes on the rights of others. For the life of me, I cannot conceive how two men or women getting married has any impact whatsoever on the lives of anyone other than them or their friends. This is not rape or theft or murder or harassment. There is no victim, just like there was no victim when a black man and a white woman got married. My how society has collapsed since we legalized that nonsense.
And, I guess if none of that matters and I have to be a bigot against a group, I'm ok with being a bigot against bigots.