Sir or Madame, I fear that it's attitudes like yours that have lead us to this world-wide vile situation. "Who cares? What business is this of ours? I know nice gays and you're just a hater. Why post this drivel? Aren't there more important things to talk about?"
Many “old schoolers” understand and even some of us “new schoolers” do as well. A bunch of “old schoolers” let this happen by sticking their collective heads in the sand, ignoring the free-love movement, militant feminism, codified political correctness, institutionalized misandry/misogyny/heterophobia, no-fault divorces, drive-through quickie marriages, the government being the daddy for millions of children born out-of-wedlock or abandoned by their parents, homo-adoptions and civil unions/same-sex "marriage".
It's going to get worse. Legalized polygamy? Lowering the sexual age of consent to 12? It's coming and more.
This world hasn't hit bottom yet, but we have to at least be informed and try to fight cultural decay.
It's a darned shame that so many on this site don't care about social issues. Money, money, money is what many people are concerned about, yet who can blame them with this terrible economy? But some Freepers do get it right on issues of constitutional liberties and the like, and this is one of those important issues!
It's just unfortunate that threads on say, abortion, rarely gather more than 50 posts, but put up an article on Danica Patrick or some young, hot teacher banging a 15 year old, and posts run into the hundreds.
Ever since Mary Cheney's "immaculate conceptions" and her phony marriage to an older woman who groomed her from youth, a lot of Freepers shrugged and posted nary a word. Most just said, "I'm so happy for them. Oh bless them, they're so wealthy, their kids will be fine. And besides, with the great Dick Cheney as a father figure the kids will be all right."
It's obvious where the wind blows on this issue. People don't care because as long as it doesn't affect them personally, what the big deal?
My dad's youngest brother destroyed his life through homosexuality, left his family and children, engaged in casual sex, died of AIDS and broke his poor mother's heart, for she loved him dearly as he was her baby boy. Is that what people want for their loved ones? But hey, legalizing same-sex marriage will get rid of all those problems, of course, so why worry?
This issue affects everyone. Politically from hate crime laws to adoptions to taxation, to reorganizing the military, to Human Rights Tribunals, to forcing religious institutions to contradict their beliefs, to brainwashing young children into believing sex is not concrete but fluid "gender", to sexual abuse of youth, to re-creating society as we know it.
But hey, it's just crap to you. Thanks scottjewell for posting this.
And thank you very kindly, for a forceful and well-executed defense of social conservatism. God bless you for caring as you do.