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Sit down and ask Mike Pence how he feels about gay rights. He is the poster boy for the Conservative Right, and, while some of his flock pretend to be more progressive, they are just like Mike.
I would think he does not care for the notion but as he can't do a damn thing about it, I cannot believe it matters.
Do you think all those African-American Democrats are favorable to Gay Marriage?
I get so sick of cons whining about political correctness.
When it's ok to get in front of a church congregation and cuss like a sailor without the church people being offended I'll see your point. Until then you cons can quit your whining.
Lots of innovation occurred under the government. The internet for example was entirely funded by the military not to mention all the medical research that is state funded. Free market is good for creating 300 kinds of breakfast cereal though.
Let's look at this from another angle for a moment.
When did common courtesy become "political correctness?"
I know that not everyone is on the same page about social issues, but I sure do remember when it was considered just plain old bad form to mock another person so brutally, for any reason - race, religion, sexuality, politics, disability...whatever. I'm sure there were nasty thoughts floating around, but they were, at least in polite company, often left unsaid. Some things really are not worth sharing.
I, for one, am sick and tired of people bragging about being politically incorrect when the fact of the matter is that they simply have no @%#$&*% manners, making nasty comments about other people and then acting like they have scored points for honesty. I see it from both sides, too, and it's equally ugly, no matter from whence it comes.
If you want to criticize someone, make it about their ideas, not their person. Rudeness isn't courageous, it's just rude.
I just said a cherry picked example I could less who made it the law. Social conservatives are by there nature opposed to gay rights otherwise you aren't a social conservative its really simple. Watching the mental gymnastics you are using is really quite sad defending the undefendable. Its ok you can agree with me that denying gay people rights is stupid.
Well gee, I am not a Social Conservative. Never have been. Most people are not.
There is of course truth in what you say. But it is not like Gay Marriage or even Gay Rights was a big Liberal issue until around 2008 or so.
I have been alive long enough to remember Anita Bryant and all her nonsense. Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Jesse Jackson did not rush out to refute her and support Gay Rights. Nor did they rush to Rock Hudson's death bed 7 years later.
Congratulations. You have been enlightened for a whopping 10 years. 39 years after Stonewall and you finally fell in line.
We have gotten to a very low, very ugly place in this country right now (and maybe the world too). There have always been political differences, but I have never seen this level of finger pointing, hatred, and people who are so angry
LOL!! Look in the mirror Sport. It's people like yourself that are ugly, angry and melting down daily.
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I have said before that, for God Know What Reason, a lot of people in America are pissed at something, so angry that they know the man they voted for is a total idiot, and the more idiotic he is the more they salivate. If he got up on that stage drunk and threw up, they would defend it and actually applaud it.
These are very, very strange times.
Just look how butthurt you are. It's pretty amusing.
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