I'm just getting sick of these asshats.

[acroyear]

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Weakest Argument Against Gay Marriage:

If it walks like a bigot and talks like a bigot, it's a legal scholar fighting a noble crusade to protect our children from the heathens. -- "Capt Rational", comment #3.

This was in response to Princeton U Professor Robert George: "if homosexual marriage is legalized, individuals who believe in traditional marriage could be treated as bigots and their religious views on homosexual marriage could be subject to attack -- and possibly even prosecution."

in other words, bigots might be treated like bigots, but that's a slippery slope (and a fallacy) to the repression of free speech for those who want to take away our free speech.

Any "scholar" who trounces out such an obviously bogus slippery-slope argument needs to get his fucking ass back into school as a student, 'cause it shows he didn't learn a fucking thing.

btw, this ignorant wing-nut is one of the two authors of the proposed marriage amendment.  the other: Robert Bork.

you'd think we'd learned to ignore shitheads like those by now.

Comments

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

Being a Jew or a Muslim or a Pagan is legal. Does that stop Christians and Christian ministers (not all, I know, but many) from expressing their views that not being a Christian is wrong and sinful? Are they prosecuted for speaking out?

Divorce is legal. Does that stop Catholics, or any other person whose religion bars divorce from holding anti-divorce religious views, or from expressing them publicly?

This country traditionally does not hold with the thought police, and you are not required to approve of every legal behavior.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Are they prosecuted for speaking out?

as far as they're concerned, they're persecuted for speaking out and they consider that to be the same thing.

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

Because, of course, it's PERSECUTION when someone expresses an opinion that conflicts with one of yours. Not when you do it to someone else, of course, because you're right and they're wrong. Just when it's done to you.
*rolls eyes*
Not that I'm bitter, or anything.

[johnbroadfoot.livejournal.com]

It would seem, from observation, that certain folk LOVE freedom of speech, until someone excercizes that freedom to disagree with them. As for the issue, I don't believe the government has any business deciding who may "marry" who.