Saturday, July 7, 2007

We're not bigots, we just hate you because you're different

This page dissects a New York Times column that was basically a shill for a new book out against gay marriage. The premise of the gay marriage fight, in the words of the author of the book, "the equal dignity of all persons and the worth of homosexual love, versus the flourishing of children. On each side, the threat to something important is real." Which is nonsense--opposing gay marriage only harms children.

But later on the column quotes again from the book author denying that he's a bigot: "being opposed to gay marriage is not necessarily the expression of bigotry."

Well, this article quotes a letter to the paper that shreds that fairly nicely, I thought:
[S]ince Blankenhorn did not extend those arguments to childless heterosexuals, the "basis of the discrimination he advocates, in other words, is homosexuality," the couple wrote.

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