Wow -- I made Politiclast again > Rexroad.com

My posts here continue to provide lots of material for others blogs. Ok.

This one on Politiclast.com is probably my favorite. It is titled "Rexroad goes Homophobe"

So I don't believe in gay marriage so I must be a closet homosexual. Right. Actually, I am willing to bet that most of Woodland feels the same way I do on this issue.

Comments

By JK @ Monday, May 12, 2008 5:33 PM

I don't really think it's that you're being called a closet homosexual or anything - that would clearly be absurd.

Still, you've made a point of saying that you think gay marriage and relationships are a bad thing. You've pointed it out as a problem within society. While the term homophobe is (as it almost always is) inaccurate and inappropriate, having a pointed agenda against homosexuality does mean you see it negatively and are "afraid" of what might happen if it were an accepted lifestyle.

In that respect, I think it's pretty accurate. You clearly think legitimizing homosexual relationships would be damaging to this country. You're afraid of that damage enough to want to prohibit that legitimacy.

A tremendous number of people would call that ludicrous bigotry, with a lack of respect for equal rights, while overstepping the bounds of government regulation within people's personal lives. This is exactly how I feel on the subject.

What can I say? I lean liberal, and I lean liberterian. A gay marriage ban is diametrically opposed to my principles.

In this country, an even more tremendous number of people would, as surveys have shown, be likely to say, as you do, that marriage is between a man and a woman. That is what people believe for the time, and we'll see how that ends up.

Still, I don't think homosexuality is going anywhere. It's been a fact of life accepted for over 5000 years, and probably more, but written history only goes so far back.

I'd like to think that equal rights for homosexuality are eventually respected. When people first landed on our shores, people were persecuted for their religion, but found freedom here. Then, for hundreds of years, people were persecuted for the color of their skin - abhorrent behavior which is no longer tolerated by our government. Even more recently, stunningly, women were finally given the same rights as men. And maybe in a few decades, people will be free of discrimination based on sexual preference.

I know I'd hate it if I was told I couldn't marry my girlfriend.

- one of your heterosexual male constituents

By YoloCalVet @ Monday, May 12, 2008 8:56 PM

"A tremendous number of people would call that ludicrous bigotry, with a lack of respect for equal rights, while overstepping the bounds of government regulation within people's personal lives. This is exactly how I feel on the subject."

My question to that statement is; "Why the obbsession with Government recognition of same sex marriage if the government is overstepping it's bounds?

By JK @ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:07 AM

Because I would argue that the most important role of government, at least ours, is freedom from oppression, and protecting people's individual rights.

I never was too hot about the whole "separate but equal" idea.

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