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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Yeah, I got that. And unless you're intently watering down the word, you're wrong.
You could rephrase your absolute to 'most of these people', but I don't see how you'd manage to support that, either. Opposition to gay marriage just doesn't require intolerance toward other groups or opinions. It just doesn't.
They surely go hand-in-hand for some significant portion of the opposition, but that's about as much as one can say without guessing.
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I don't see how you can say "Opposition to gay marriage just doesn't require intolerance toward other groups or opinions," without performing some impressive feats of intellectual acrobatics. I mean, on the surface, you don't have to be intolerant of gays to not want them to marry. On the surface, you don't need to be intolerant of blacks to not want them to marry whites either. That doesn't mean that in reality these types of perspectives aren't dependent on bigotry.
So I see what you're saying, but I don't think it's a meaningful distinction to make.