It is constructive because you advocate giving them special rights. THEY are the ones demanding them. THAT is who you are defending. The Folsom Street Fair gang and others like them are the vocal ones and you are defending special rights for them. You can't hide them and pretend they aren't there. They declare that they are gay, proud and in your face. They call heterosexuals "breeders". This IS who you are defending.
“It is constructive because you advocate giving them special rights. THEY are the ones demanding them. THAT is who you are defending. The Folsom Street Fair gang and others like them are the vocal ones and you are defending special rights for them. You can’t hide them and pretend they aren’t there. They declare that they are gay, proud and in your face. They call heterosexuals “breeders”. This IS who you are defending.”
Actually I thought I was defending the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with the same rights...even when we don’t like them, their behavior is abhorent, they lay with other men, their skin color is different from mine, they belong to a religion that advocates the destruction of my faith.
In that regard, the right to build a mosque in lower Manhattan becomes defensible as well. Denying that right would be wrong. However, the desire to build that mosque is in the poorest possible taste and the most insensitive thing I have ever seen. It deserves our scorn but not our denial. As much as I hate it, to deny it, would be to give up a part of our central beliefs...we loose a heck of a lot more than a mosque in lower Manhattan with that decision. We lose the better angels of nature, our raison datre.
Such it is with the Folsom Street Fair and its uglier but less known sister, Dore Alley (look it up). Why the city of San Francisco allows this to go on with indescency statutes on the books is beyond me. It is disgusting. But for us to override the State of California and the City of San Francisco and have the Federal Government intervene when both the City and State allow it, would again destroy more than two disgusting street fairs. It would destroy a piece of hard fought and well established state and municiple rights while expanding Federal reach to dangerous levels.
I advocate neither mosques or fairs. I advocate simply for the true rights of man.