If you don't, we'll know who to blame... |
You know what? Screw this legal shit, let's just see who gets the most honks. |
"I was thinking we could mail a bag of dog shit to every gay person in America. Whatta ya think?"
-The NOM strategy meeting
for operation: Sour Grapes
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They say (they who? I don't know, people who say things) that in fiction the best bad guys are the ones who don't think that they're the bad guy. Take Magneto for instance. Yeah, he did some pretty terrible things, but he only wanted to make the world a better place for mutants and that's why he had to drop so many cars and asteroids on people.
Yes, he is murdering astronauts here, but it was for a good cause...I assume. |
Did you guys ever stop to think about how gay marriage would affect homophobes? No, I didn't think so. |
The world hated and feared mutants and he stuck up for them. You can see Magneto's side of things and that, along with his ability to exert control over magnetic forces, is why he's awesome. But what about real life bad guys like NOM and FRC? Am I a jerk for thinking that they're just bad (or at best, misguided) people? I know they think they have a point, and I know that they think it's the right one, but as far as I can tell their side boils down to 'we don't like gays and want to treat them like second-class citizens.' That's not a position, that's hate.
"Really, I'm the victim here. If there were no gay people, I wouldn't hate them so much."
-Peter Sprigg, FRC
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"One of the points of frustration for me has been that supporters of same-sex marriage want to portray the opponents of it as motivated entirely by hostility towards gay and lesbians people as individuals and that's completely untrue. We are concerned about the institution of marriage and making sure it continues to perform the important social functions it has always performed."
"Ha! So much for the institution of marriage!"
-Lesbians, ruining everything
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They're like the cheesy, two-dimensional bad guys of 80's cartoons. They're the Cobra† of national discourse. Just generically evil organizations with no real motivation other than sucking the happiness out of people's lives.
*I mean I'm hopeful that they'll make their announcement tomorrow, they'll almost certainly be wearing those stupid robes. Oh well, it could be worse. In some countries they still wear powdered wigs.
Like for real, how are these guys taken seriously? |
†And before you stick up for Cobra, please explain to me what their deal was. I mean, it was just one easily-thwarted and pointless scheme after another. What was their goal anyway?
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