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We hear a lot stuff like this: “Among the likeliest effects of gay marriage is to take us down a slippery slope to legalized polygamy.” This argument is handy for people who want to mask their homophobia by claiming they have nothing against gays—they just think it’s dangerous to “redefine” marriage. How do we answer that? [...] A few days after I posted the “Bashing” video, I got this message from a girl on Facebook. I showed it to a few friends who found it inspirational and thought it deserved more attention. So here it is, with her permission. I don’t even know if you are going to read [...] I originally started this blog to document my experience in organizing a protest. I’ll have to write more about that, but in the meantime, here’s a video of the event, created by two filmmakers at FutureView Entertainment. I’m so tired of hearing the religious right complain about hateful, intolerant gays. And now they’re trying to co-opt the word “bashing.” It’s their deliberate attempt to trivialize the challenges we face. But this time they’ve gone too far. By the way, I misnamed the group in the video. It’s “Christian Anti-Defamation [...] I actually put this together around Christmas time, but better late than never. I’ve seen documentaries about Brown v. Topeka, and the producers always compare a spiffy 1950s whites-only school with a ramshackle “negro” schoolhouse. That made me think the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine because the equal part never really happened. But if you read the Brown decision, the Court believed the separate [...] I volunteered to lead a protest. Yeah, it’s about gay marriage. The Prop 8 vote woke me up. Go back to when I was a kid: I was a great student and lousy at sports. That double-whammy will get you picked on even by the kids who get picked on. I was tall and scrawny with a [...] |
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