Thread: My semi annual thread: People are BIG FAT LIARS about Gay Marriage

Lots of people are fed up with being called bigots and homophobes when they support civil unions on this board. It needs to stop.

I'll admit that I over-extrapolated your love for civil unions and your hatred of same-sex marriage from your false claims that the OP was blasting anyone who supports Oregon's civil unions. Since you went ON AND ON about how much you resented being (falsely) attacked for (as you put it) fighting for civil unions, it was natural to conclude that you believe civil unions are totally terrific, whereas they are, in actuality, gay water...

Thanks for the clarification!

I certainly would contribute to help finance one, I feel that strongly about this. I'm not placing the burden on anyone to do anything they don't want, I'm advocating the only approach I know of. I haven't been able to find a single poll that's been conducted like this, or I'd post the results if they backed my conviction or reconsider the approach if it didn't. I realize there is a certain amount of...

Edited on Wed Nov-11-09 05:07 PM by mitchtv note. Civil unions for all is a pipe dream

But I've had a string of decent temp gigs so it hasn't been too bad. Things have been considerably better lately. I'm also looking at going back to school in January.

Marriage bans was always a right wing tactic to divide democrats so republicans could win elections. They thought it would work all the time. But the crazies took over and ultimately they still lost. We were forced to fight to keep what little we had and try to stop them pushing the gains made back further and making real progress difficult. They attacked us on multiple fronts with huge amounts of money. They pushed it to not simply excluding...

What infuriates me far more than Nair's hateful, anti-gay rants is the trend of the self-important, "post-marriage" "radical queers" to eat up her vile drivel as if it were candy, then spew it back out as if it were the holy writ. (Don't want to get married? Then don't get married. But damn those who attempt to derail marriage for everyone else because it doesn't jive with their worldview. They're...