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When the issue is gay marriage who are the intolerant ones?

When the issue is gay marriage who are the intolerant one?


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OK sports fans what do you think, Please explain your choice. Thanks for participating.
 
Neither being 'gay' nor being 'straight' is a prerequisite for being intolerant.
 
Many self-proclaimed "homosexuals" are intolerant of the word "marriage". So they want to re-define and pervert it for their own selfish reasons.
 
gay supporters who are not themselves gay.
 
OK sports fans what do you think, Please explain your choice. Thanks for participating.

Based on your other posts and threads, I'd say you and people who think like you. In my opinion.

I don't know if you're gay or straight, but sexual orientation is a hard wired personality trait, while intolerance is a learned behavior. My point is there is no link between prejudices/intolerance and sexual orientation, so your poll is kind of dumb, in my opinion.
 
Some of both, to be honest. The much of political correctness culture IMHO is designed to socially stigmatize and in some cases punish people of faith for believing the Bible.
 
OK sports fans what do you think, Please explain your choice. Thanks for participating.

This poll could only make sense if all straights were against gay marriage.
 
Here is what I believe when it comes to gay rights........I believe in equal rights for all Americans that includes gays.....I don't care what gays do when it comes to marriage but I believe the definition of marriage should be a union between a man and a woman and that should not change...Gays can call their union anything else they want to. They already stole the definition of the word gay...That is my opinion but gays and flaming liberals think I have no right to that opinion...They think because I believe as I do that I am a bigot or homophobe. I am not allowed to have my own opinion if it disagrees with theirs...Now I ask you who are the intolerant ones?
 
The people who are opposed to equal rights for gays-- and yes, that includes marriage-- are the intolerant ones. Period, full stop. It's stupid this is even a question.
 
Here is what I believe when it comes to gay rights........I believe in equal rights for all Americans that includes gays.....I don't care what gays do when it comes to marriage but I believe the definition of marriage should be a union between a man and a woman and that should not change...Gays can call their union anything else they want to. They already stole the definition of the word gay...That is my opinion but gays and flaming liberals think I have no right to that opinion...They think because I believe as I do that I am a bigot or homophobe. I am not allowed to have my own opinion if it disagrees with theirs...Now I ask you who are the intolerant ones?

Right! How dare those icky gays demand to drink from our drinking fountain. They should be happy to drink from their own if we are gracious enough to give it to them. Right Navy? How dare gays demand to be able to sit with the rest of us at the front of the bus, its not like we aren't allowing them a chance to ride on the bus. How can anyone call us intolerant? We just don't believe in the mixing of the races. They already forced their icky inter-racial marriage on us and watered down the purity of the white race? They already forced us to change the defintion of marriage to allow for the perverted inter-racial coupling. Why do they want to change the definition of marriage again. The nerve of these people who seek equality.
 
Here is what I believe when it comes to gay rights........I believe in equal rights for all Americans that includes gays.....I don't care what gays do when it comes to marriage but I believe the definition of marriage should be a union between a man and a woman and that should not change...Gays can call their union anything else they want to. They already stole the definition of the word gay...That is my opinion but gays and flaming liberals think I have no right to that opinion...They think because I believe as I do that I am a bigot or homophobe. I am not allowed to have my own opinion if it disagrees with theirs...Now I ask you who are the intolerant ones?

Being intolerant of intolerance is not intolerance.

You are intolerant.
 
Here is what I believe when it comes to gay rights........I believe in equal rights for all Americans that includes gays.....I don't care what gays do when it comes to marriage but I believe the definition of marriage should be a union between a man and a woman and that should not change...Gays can call their union anything else they want to. They already stole the definition of the word gay...That is my opinion but gays and flaming liberals think I have no right to that opinion...They think because I believe as I do that I am a bigot or homophobe. I am not allowed to have my own opinion if it disagrees with theirs...Now I ask you who are the intolerant ones?

Being intolerant of intolerance is not intolerance.

You are intolerant.

Just to be clear I'm not saying you have to change your opinion or change your faith if thats your reasoning behind your position, if you belong to a church that doesn't believe in gay marriage and you want to keep it that way then that's fine, I got no issue with you there. But I refuse to let government be based on faith based beliefs.
 
I think this is the first gay-topic thread you started that you didn't bash gays in. Your still fixated on gayness of course, but this time at least seemingly start neutral - sort of anyway.

I think what you are driving at is intolerance of intolerance as much or more intolerance than the initial intolerance itself?

Maybe you have a point in there somewhere and for some rabidly gay activists I'll even agree - because some really go off the deep end. Like that old worn out report of gays running into a Catholic church throwing condoms at each other.

A rough analogy would be if you tried to slug me - and I responded by breaking your collarbone, nose and hit you a dozen times more - am I more the aggressor - though YOU started it?

In a way, maybe, maybe not.

So... the FLAW in your poll is (common for you) stereotyping all gays and all straights as two seperate groups - with all identical to each other within those categories. Notably, many, many straights support gay rights. I don't know of any gays who want to take away marriage from straight couples. Do you?
 
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I think this is the first gay-topic thread you started that you didn't bash gays in. Your still fixated on gayness of course, but this time at least seemingly start neutral - sort of anyway.

LOL...until at least one hour....and then he started up with the same anti-gay Navy Pride that we all know all too well.
 
The people who are opposed to equal rights for gays-- and yes, that includes marriage-- are the intolerant ones. Period, full stop. It's stupid this is even a question.

Why can't people have a different opinion then you...........What if they want gays to have equal rights but don't want the definition of marriage changed like Liberals did with the word "Gay".
 
Why can't people have a different opinion then you...........What if they want gays to have equal rights but don't want the definition of marriage changed like Liberals did with the word "Gay".

I think of all the horrors of gay marriage becoming legal, the one about a word changing definition gains slightly less sympathy from me than "a fear of success."
 
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Why can't people have a different opinion then you...........What if they want gays to have equal rights but don't want the definition of marriage changed like Liberals did with the word "Gay".

Then they really DON't want gays to have equal rights. Its the same situation as seperate drinking fountains. Why couldn't THOSE bigots have a different opinion than others? They wanted blacks to have equal rights to water fountains, but they just didn't want to change "white only" drinking fountains....they didn't want things "changed" just like they didn't want their bus system changed either.
 
I think of all the horrors of gay marriage becoming legal, the one about a word changing definition gains slightly less sympathy from me than "a fear of success."

Very weak my left wing friend...Please address the full sentence.
 
Well, Navy...if you put the pencil to it...there have a variety of races, ethnic groups, homo-relations populations who have been persecuted, chastised, disenfranchised, etc since the dawn of humankind....who now speak up and have to do whatever they have to do to overcome oppression, abuse, etc....and because of that...they find themselves called intolerant because they have finally demanded some form of equality. And people are calling them "intolerant"? Really?

Now your rant is that people don't think you're entitled to opinions about gays or any other minority that you aren't fond of, if any. In saying that...have you ever really compared your own opinions to the issues of oppression and inequalities, which have been perpetually at the center of all of these groups who strive to end these social behaviors toward them?

Such is life, I guess...
 
Well, Navy...if you put the pencil to it...there have a variety of races, ethnic groups, homo-relations populations who have been persecuted, chastised, disenfranchised, etc since the dawn of humankind....who now speak up and have to do whatever they have to do to overcome oppression, abuse, etc....and because of that...they find themselves called intolerant because they have finally demanded some form of equality. And people are calling them "intolerant"? Really?

Now your rant is that people don't think you're entitled to opinions about gays or any other minority that you aren't fond of, if any. In saying that...have you ever really compared your own opinions to the issues of oppression and inequalities, which have been perpetually at the center of all of these groups who strive to end these social behaviors toward them?

Such is life, I guess...

I opress no one my left wing friend.
 
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