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First off, I support ALL rights including marriage and adoption 100% for gay people so you've already proven to be completely ignorant like normal. I also support gun rights 100% for gay people since they're citizens just like everyone else.
Maybe you do, but the conservatives you worship do not. That's the point I'm making.
How come when it comes to things like gay marriage, liberals cite that a majority should not determine the rights of a minority. For example, Virginia passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage with 57% voting for the ban. The majority said no to gay marriage, yet liberals want to overturn that because it violates the rights of a minority (for what it's worth, I totally agree which is why I am against democracy and for Republic and rule of law, not rule of majority).
However, often times, liberals like to selectively cite polls where the majority support their cause. For example, they often referenced majority support for higher income taxes on the rich, gun control, etc.
Why is it that liberals are so selective in determining when majority opinion is important or not?
Well, a couple things. First of all, when either side has poll numbers in their favor, they trumpet them. They can provide just a little bit of oomph to your argument sometimes, especially if part of the discussion has to do with the likelihood of policies actually getting advanced or not. I'm pretty sure that's the case because it certainly wasn't the left that's been screaming about the poll numbers against Obamacare since before it was even passed. I mean, some on the left do, sure, but it's been the right that I've been hearing mostly. So in one way, this is natural, de Tocqueville wrote about it as a peculiar characteristic of Americans--always wanting their opinions to be that of the majority and believing that being in the majority gave your opinions added moral force. I also recall the last election, when the polls that showed Obama was likely to win were attacked rather mercilessly and website that supposedly unskewed the poll numbers was set up. Now I wasn't here at that time so I have no idea what you or anyone else here thought about that, but it definitely had some support on the right, a lot of people wanted the polls to be in their favor.
But besides that I think that for people on the left, there's differentiation between individual civil rights (and human rights) and everything else. And I think that you'll find that left and right don't frame those issues in quite the same way. Meaning, we're not in agreement about what constitutes civil rights and what does not. Obvious disagreements over women's reproductive rights, access to health insurance, gay rights and gun control, etc. highlight that fundamental disagreement over how the issues are framed. Another good example that you mention is taxes. I've seen many people on the right, here and elsewhere (on TV, on the radio, etc.) use the language of civil rights when talking about taxes. Perhaps, it could be said, many on the right view taxation as a civil rights issue? I don't know. But coming from the left, I certainly don't. I don't believe that the majority should decide whether gay people have rights or not, but I don't have any problem with the majority of the people of this country collectively deciding our economic future, because I don't see taxes and economic policy as a civil rights issue. I'm not saying that there could never be any circumstance where it couldn't be a civil rights issue, I think that's definitely possible, but in general, no.
Now that is hilarious. Do you sit around writing these jokes for profit?
Liberals love minorities, homosexuals and women in general, so long as they stay on the Liberal Plantation. If one of the objects of Democrats’ compassion runs away, however, those same "tolerant" folks call out the dogs and sic ‘em on the poor stray, hurling every racial, homophobic, sexist epithet lurking in their caveman brains in order to bring them back to the cotton fields.
How come when it comes to things like gay marriage, liberals cite that a majority should not determine the rights of a minority. For example, Virginia passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage with 57% voting for the ban. The majority said no to gay marriage, yet liberals want to overturn that because it violates the rights of a minority (for what it's worth, I totally agree which is why I am against democracy and for Republic and rule of law, not rule of majority).
However, often times, liberals like to selectively cite polls where the majority support their cause. For example, they often referenced majority support for higher income taxes on the rich, gun control, etc.
Why is it that liberals are so selective in determining when majority opinion is important or not?
Liberals don't have connecting brain waves. Hear that sizzle? It's them shorting out.
Liberals love minorities, homosexuals and women in general, so long as they stay on the Liberal Plantation. If one of the objects of Democrats’ compassion runs away, however, those same "tolerant" folks call out the dogs and sic ‘em on the poor stray, hurling every racial, homophobic, sexist epithet lurking in their caveman brains in order to bring them back to the cotton fields.
You can have your 1% gays and I have 75% that own guns.
Who will win in a majority rule?
1% of gays far outnumber you with 700 million guns.
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