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OK, wow. You really aren't reading anything we say.
Look, about 99.3% of the people posting in this thread agree with you. However, we think you're a bit too paranoid about it.
Then how exactly have I "Lost"?
You assume that if we disagree with you on anything that we are completely against everything you say. That's not true.
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You complain about the religious right forcing their beliefs on you. You're doing the same thing. The fact that you believe you have the only possible correct opinion does not invalidate everyone else's opinion.
How am I doing that? People keep making these assertions without backing them up. If
anyone makes that again, I'm just going to go crazy. And I mean that.
Please, explain to me how i'm forcing anything on anyone.
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You lost in texas. And it's not an unfair debate, we agree that gays should have the right to marry, we're only arguing with things like this...
Then you're an idiot for making someone being upset over a gay rights issue a "Sore loser". This isn't a game.
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THAT, my freind is a perfect example of being a hypocrite (and that is a direct quote).
HOW? There's a difference between being a hypocrite, and capping a recursive definition. Huge difference.
Look at it this way - everyone has a ball which represents their love for tolerance and compassion. Once they attack someone else, they loose that ball.
You're getitng very close to moral relatvism, which is a whole load of rubbish. Some things have to be plain wrong, and this is one of them. Just like murderers, to a lesser extent, Bigots are wrong. And that's the end of it.
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I use your own quotes as evidence, did you even read them? Or are you like the hulk and transform into an unstoppable liberla monster when you are hit by the light from computer screens?
Posting what I've said back at me doesn't count unless you explain the contradiction.
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BUT WE AGREE WITH YOU!!!! <----Make sure to read that part.
No, you don't. My main point is that people shouldn't be able to interfere with rights that aren't their own and have no logical backing as to how they would harm anyone, and would fight for the death for the right for others to remove the rights from innocent others.
I'm sick of this "just an opinion" crap. If you're voting someone's rights away, you've done something wrong. I'm not going to be soft on you like some people are. You being used as a hypothetical third person, of course.
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As a liberal, I don't like Texas all that much. But if they want to be stupid, then give them their right to be stupid. I have a bone to pick with their criminal justice system, which seems to be a big problem in the Bible Belt, along with divorce, murder, and domestic violence (ironic ain't it?). If they want to be hypocritical, then let them. Because I don't think we can really change what the second-largest state wants to think.
But this isn't a case of "Oh, leave them to their believes". I've met so many online who have suffered because of southern bigotry, ended up on the streets, had their children taken from them.
The more you say "Let them be stupid", the more lives are being ruined. I differ from people here in that i actually want to damn well *do* something to stop people being hurt.
People put the almighty "Right to an opinion" above all. But since there are so many "Normal" folk and so few "Queer" folk, they get instantly outnumbered, and it's only a way of saying "Our opinion on your life is more important than the entire way you live your life".
It's not balanced, it's not fair. So while the rest of you sit on your asses saying how important the rights of people who do nothing but abuse them are, I'm going to damn well figure out a way to stop it.
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I just read today that the amount of votes counted was 472,553. I was really surprised, considering that the population of Texas is around 22.5 million, and that this kind of debate is (supposedly) something that "Bible Belt" Texas would go to arms for. So it actually turns out that the vast majority of Texans are apathetic to gay marriage.
Or they don't think it's likely enough to be passed to bother, which is even more likely.