While doing some research for my last post, I came across the website of the National Organization for Marriage. Thankfully, this comes from the US (we're not crazy enough for one of those yet). This is the new project of Brian Brown, the hopelessly misguided marriage campaigner who I discussed in the civil partnership post. It's full of the same tired crap about "the common good" and protecting "traditional" values. The one interesting part of the website is the "Marriage Talking Points". This aims to help people who want to oppose same-sex marriage to become better informed about the key debate issues. The problem is that anyone who seeks to use such a simplified information source as the basis of informed debate is seriously deluded. The page itself is too long to reproduce in its entirety so here is the link. I thought that I would share this little nugget of lunacy, though, just to keep you all amused.
1. Are you a bigot? “Why do you want to take away people’s rights?”
“Isn’t it wrong to write discrimination into the constitution?”
A: “Do you really believe people like me who believe mothers and fathers both matter to kids are like bigots and racists? I think that’s pretty offensive, don’t you? Particularly to the 60 percent of African-Americans who oppose same-sex marriage. Marriage as the union of husband and wife isn’t new; it’s not taking away anyone’s rights. It’s common sense.”
The sentence in bold really caught my eye. It's so monumentally ridiculous that it's almost difficult to divine what kind of drugs the author was smoking when he thought it up. According to this asshole, we can't call people out over their homophobia because that would be the same as calling them racist and you can't do that since there are homophobic african-american people out there too. Anyone who defends their position using this kind of twisted logic deserves to be laughed at.
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