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This is the part that bothers me.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
It doesn’t work for me with all the 1960s anti-homosexual slurs I’m seeing every day about Mayor Buttigieg. Every thread mentioning him has attacks and jokes and insults about his orientation.
It was fair in political argument to bring up what we knew about closeted candidates or leaders like Obama and Hillary. Just one more example of how devious and dishonest they were.
This man is open and honest about his homosexuality, he’s legally married, which deserves respect, and so far from what I’ve read about him, he’s a decent human being who is the kind of ideological, non-corrupt liberal we are supposed to want as an opponent, to argue with on the pure basis of ideas on how to govern this country.
The people here don’t give him a fair chance as an opponent but insist on filling threads about him with Beavis and Butthead jokes about sexuality. There is nothing pro-family or pro-Gd about insulting people. These insults are not about his hypocrisy or scandals, like the insults most politicians generate. The cheap homosexuality slurs are not at all in line with what I thought this place was, and if they are continually allowed, I don’t understand how this place can be a respectable house of discourse on constitutional ideas and freedom.