Originally Posted by new coup for you

I guarantee there are at least 100 holocaust memorial, I know of 2 gay ones.

What the hell Jews do you know? I literally haven't gone more then two weeks in my entire life without hearing a Very Solemn Speech about the horrors of the Holocaust. I think it's excessive but ultimately tolerating endless Holocaust speeches is hardly a burden compared to allowing that kind of anti-semitism to rise.

Will & Grace is my equality? Does Will & Grace allow me to marry, give me hospital visitation rights or adoption rights?

Being gay absolutely does not hurt you- provided you live in a cosmopolitan urban center full of progressive liberals. other places are...well...Laremy. Of course the irony is that where gays really need help, places like Laremy, it isn't given. Places where we're protected and accepted, like Germany, is where people are "working against intolerance". I'm aware that this isn't particularly good strategy. However, building gay monuments in JEE-SUS land would actually be "shoving it down your throats", which is of course much more valuable then human rights.

Do you want to know the real reason red staters don't want gays to have equality? It isn't just about their hatred, its' about deep rooted loathing of the progressive North. The South is still mad that the North used federal power to force them to change their society through desegregation. Now, I genuinely believe that the South isn't particularly more racist then the North (in fact in some ways I think it's less racist), however I think the South is still seething that "those damn uppity Yankees" forced their views (even though they're now universally accepted as the correct view) on them. As a consequence they want to do something similar to the North- and they've chosen homosexuals as an easy target.

It's entirely about obsession, hatred and inferiority complexes.