The Photographer’s Story (Is Everyone Who Opposes Gay Marriage a Bigot?)

Slate ^ | William Saletan

[Elsie]

So call me a BIGOT! I will wear that label proudly...

They merely want you to WASTE your time, trying to prove that you're not.

They really don't CARE whether you are or not; just stop talking about how FOUL their lifedeathstyle is.

[Elsie]

I’m awake now!!

;^)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Did it ever occur to these demented, disease-ridden child-molesters, that they’re the bigots, and the rest of us are mostly normal?

[ourworldawry]

“Did it ever occur to these demented, disease-ridden child-molesters, that they’re the bigots, and the rest of us are mostly normal?”

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Of course it does. But by continually molesting our tolerance, they keep getting their way. Going back in the closet may be their only resolve. There isn’t anyone I know who isn’t fed up with the homosexual sin that abounds in this world.

[Gene Eric]

>> This is a deeply personal moral issue.

A trivialization of morality treating it like it’s an emotion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The homos of old wouldn’t have dreamed of trying this even in milieus where they were tolerated. Marriage would be a buzz kill. Commitment dampened the game; it didn’t accentuate it.

There is a new breed of loud mouth and they have managed to co-opt what sense was left in the old homos.

The punking instinct has been redirected towards punking society instead of just punking themselves.

Maybe the end game will look like Sodom in which the gang assault apparently was de rigueur. If it’s ever reached. There’s going to be a point reached where even tolerant Christians are going to say this is it, doo-wop, we won’t sit for this any more.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I don’t care whether you buy it or not. Some gays are quite content in the closet and just want to be left alone.

You know this, how?

[Colonel_Flagg]

I was a best man at a same-sex wedding 23 years ago

No, you weren't. You just thought you were.

[cripplecreek]

Because on of my friends from childhood is gay. He says it doesn’t define him and he doesn’t talk about it or feel a need to push an agenda. He calls GOP proud a bunch of ideological faggots who just want to turn the GOP into the democrats.

The only reason I know about it is because I ran into him and his partner few years ago on a fishing trip up north. He told me because he didn’t want me to figure it out on my own. We suspected him years ago when we were teenagers.