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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? [...] 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 [...] |
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