Reply #8: No, the arguments are different than those over "miscegenation" [View All]

[markus]

I am just old enough at 46 to remember the civil rights movement from the perspective of a white child in the South. I don't believe these arguments were used, but the tone of doom to civilization is familiar.

Because this is about gender rather than race, I am not surprised at the specious arguments about polygamy, incest, bestiality, and every other bit of junk they are dredging up. It fits is a twisted, I-believe-the-world-was-created-6,000-year-ago-on-Saturday sort of way.

I'm straight, and these people (those people, not my GLBT friends) disgust me. How did the Christianity become the Cult of Psuedo-Christian Hate?

For now I guess we need to keep the argument civil: pointing out that the amendment would also ban civil unions, the domestic partnership benefits in place at every major corporation in America (or at least every corporation with half-decent beneifts), and enshrine a particular majoritarian prejudice in a document that is (and should remain) a shining beacon of how to condcut a just and civil society.

How can we expect to tell the Shiites to stop killing other Iraqeis and our own soldiers and get with the Democratic Program when we're about to launch our nation on its first pogrom?