If religion has nothing to do with your opposition for “gay” marriage, where do you stand on barring religion from any contractual relationshup, ie marriage? I’d be ok if marriage were replaced with civil unions for heterosexuals, leaving “marriage” solely as a religious ceremony like confirmation or bar-mitzvah.

I mow my lawn, pay my taxes, volunteer in my kids’ school and my church, and am kind to kids, the elderly and animals. I am pretty boring. I am favor of a strong defense and of law and order. I am fiscally conservative. I believe we all have a duty to serve our country.

I also think it is unwise to exclude qualified people from serving their country in the military.

Finally, I think a society is more stable if most of its adults are legally commited in a long-term monogamous relationship with one other adult who they love and with whom they want to share a household. I think children living in such households will grow-up morely to be happy, productive memebers of society. The adults in sich households will also be more likely to be employed, law-abidding and tax-paying.

You may label me a “militant dyke” but that is my contrubition to a “rational” discussion with you. I wish you no harm or ill-will nor any one else on the “right.” Barring religious reasons, there is no logical reason to deny me benefits and responsibilities available to lawfully wed heterosexual couples.

If the differences are that intolerable, then just walk away without making a scene..without screaming prejudice…without practicing the hate that you profess to hate so much. Does that qualify as HYPOCRICY? I think so.

I haven’t spoken to my best friend or my half-sister for years, becaue they are unreconstructed socialists. They are not bad people. They are not even stupid. In fact, they are both quite intelligent, witty and otherwise fun to be around.

Life is too short to spend it with people whose deeply held beliefs you find abhorrent, even for a couple of hours around a Thanksgiving dinner table. Never mind on a podcast or TV “debate”.

Kathy’s not alone in wanting only the comforting sound of an echo-chamber. I’ve been tossed from several screechy-right sites, not for being abusive (you know I am not), but essentially for disagreeing.

I’d save the finger-wagging for your ideological flatmates, if I were you.

Some people have so much resentment bottled up inside themselves that they don’t understand (1) the value of small talk with one’s “idological opponents,” whatever that means, (2) how to determine who their “ideological opponents” are in the first place.

Feel sorry for her, but not in a sanctimonious way. A stance of embittered victimhood may be easy over the short term, but in the long run, one ends up unfulfilled from living in an echo chamber and lonely from having driven everyone else away. She’s hurting from something: I hope she gets happier, so that the hurting will stop.

Let me answer that. No. No time left from self pity and victimhood.

I mean, is it really our fault they were born sexually fucked up? Why are we to blame? Is it they believe it was the Christian god that did it to them, so those who worship it are to be hated?

Suck it up and shut the fuck up. Your handicap is a small one compared to blindness, missing limbs, retardation. You god the good one assholes.