It’s really not BS. Facts have absolutely nothing to do with what they’re writing about here.
There’s social pressure to which most people succumb to express currently popular opinions on social matters, especially, now, gay marriage. Daring to contradict a statement about the wonderfulness of gay marriage instantly earns the poster a ‘homophobic’ label. You will see friends and sometimes family “unfriend” you, or argue, however irrationally, with you.
"There’s social pressure to which most people succumb to express currently popular opinions on social matters, especially, now, gay marriage. Daring to contradict a statement about the wonderfulness of gay marriage instantly earns the poster a ‘homophobic’ label."
But is that pressure greater on social media than in person-to-person interactions? I don't think so, unless the person-to-person interaction involves only one or two people who you know and trust.