Tebow to appear in Focus on the Family commercial during SB XLIV

But is being against gay marriage really that outrageous? It's still the opinion of a majority of people.

I don't think it's the same as being against equal rights for woman or minorities (including homosexuals).

And if you're going to keep your children away from "those people", a lot of kids aren't going to grow up knowing their grandparents.

 

The rule in our house will be simple when my son grows up.

If you like boys, that's fine with us. But don't tell grandpa.

 

Yes. Majority supported segregation in the 50's and it was outrageous.

 

I get that, but is being against gay marriage the same as being for segregation in the '50's?

 

Yankee Fan, it goes pretty far beyond gay marriage.

Although the commonality remains, as with everything they oppose, saying no, standing in the doorway, and blocking what any given group wants and is entitled to, constitutionally and otherwise.

 

Question: Who's forcing their will on you?

Zag: Homosexuals.

 

I think it's being shown pretty conclusively that there is no common ground with the most virulent of the anti-gay crowd, YF.

 

But most people who are against gay marriage aren't virulently anti-gay.

And equating them with racists isn't any more likely to win them over to your side.

 

I did not equate you with racists, I was just trying to point out that different forms of discrimination have been very popular in the past.

 

YF, I guess the problem is that no one has enunciated any reason why gay marriage should be illegal. The answer is always that it offends people's "values," but I personally just don't think that's a good enough reason to discriminate against a group. How is it actually hurting anyone? Hurting the country?

No, it's not as bad as segregation. But as we agreed on another thread, it does compare with the anti-interracial marriage laws.

 

Looks like they stole the slogan of the righties.

And if you don't like it, guess what? Don't live there. Don't visit. Don't support the local economy. How does it affect your life? If there is hell awaiting them, I guess they'll find out in the end, won't they? In the meantime, stay with your own kind and where teh gayz know their place.

The funniest thing about this thread, BTW, other than hondo's predictable ass-licking of the Gators, was his arguing with printdust when they're both to the right of Spiro Agnew (to borrow another phrase from another thread) when printdust was saying bullshit walks re: those terrible liberal/non-Christian groups that were trying to advertise during the Super Bowl. He doesn't even know when someone is on his side. Hilarious.

 

I didn't mean to say that you equated me with being a racist. I'm not against gay marriage.

I mean, I see it as a pretty major change to the definition of what we've always called marriage, but I don't see how it affects me.

But I also understand why some people would be uncomfortable with it. Thousands of years of human history have defined marriage in one way. If that's not stare decisis, I don't know what is.