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Is that it gives them unwarranted credibility. Just because the majority of the country is bigoted doesn't make it right. These people shouldn't even get air time on the mainstream media in the same way the head of the aryan nation or the ku klux klan wouldn't. 60 years ago that wouldn't have been the case, but it is now.
The fact is that homophobia is accepted in the mainstream of today's society in the same way racism used to be. The biggest problem/difference is that this time it's wrapped up in religion, which as we all know is nothing more than superstitious brainwashing of children who then grow up to have more children to brainwash.
The result being a culture of people at the very worst actively discriminating against, hating, and murdering people over their sexual orientation and at the very best not caring and turning a blind eye to such behavior. We hear it every single day from so called "compassionate conservatives" and other bigots. Code words and phrases like "I don't want activist judges legislating from the bench." - Just another way of saying "I hate gay people."
"I believe marriage is a sacred institution." - I hate gay people.
"I'm for civil unions, not marriage." - I hate gay people.
"I have many gay friends." - But I don't think they should have the same rights as me, because I hate gay people and they're not really my friends.
In a supposed new era where it's possible for a black man to become the president of the United States of America, it's saddening to see homophobia take racism's place as America's newest social dysfunction. Would it have even been possible to pass ballot measures discriminating against a group of people over their skin color or ethnicity in this day? Imagine Proposition 9: Yes or No, should black people be allowed to (fill in the blank)? That wouldn't fly in the year 2008, going on 2009, so why did Proposition 8?
The American people have a real problem with growing up. Like children, they fear change or anything that they're not used to. They resist it and form groups to fight it. Instead of trying to understand other people who are different from them, they hate them, largely because they fear them. They delude themselves and delude their children with the false belief that Jesus would approve, and because there are so many of them, they get to be on TV, they get to have their own shows, and they get to have their own invalid views broadcast for all to see. The issue of gay marriage becomes a "debate", despite it having no grey area whatsoever.
And yes, a man like Rick Warren can ironically deliver the first black president's invocation, because a man like Rick Warren has mainstream credibility in the year 2008, going on 2009, beginning millennium number 3, counting back from the birth of Jesus Christ himself - A dark skinned Jew who would have preached against everything a man like Rick Warren stands for. The layers of irony so think you could cut them with a knife.
It took 143 years from the end of slavery to the election of a black president. I wonder when the day will come that a gay president becomes a reality. Does it really have to take another 143 years?
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