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Thread #115854   Message #2623007
Posted By: Don Firth
02-May-09 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
I don't have time to comment right now, Little Hawk, other than to point out something about the way I usually attempt to phrase things. When GfS asked me how I would feel if one of my children, presuming I had any, "decided" to become gay, I pointed out that his question ". . . is a minor variation of a question one used to hear a lot a few decades back, and it is the unmistakable hallmark of the bigot: 'Would you want your daughter to marry one?'"

I was suggesting that perhaps GfS didn't fully realize what kind of question that sounded like, and might like to think about it a bit and possibly reevaluate the ideas that prompted it.

I did not flat-out call GfS a "bigot." It's still GfS's call.

Bedtime for Bonzo. . . .

Don Firth