You're playing out the comfy, familiar "liberal" role that makes you feel most holy and righteous (as an anti-anti-gay crusader), and you've been cleverly led into it by the politicans and the mass media...solely for THEIR gain, not for yours.

It's a sad, sad case of the media and politicians driving the agenda, the tail wagging the dog, and people falling for it hook, line, and sinker...

Little Hawk, if you try really, really hard you might be able to be a little bit more of jerk. But you'd have to try really hard . . . What you are doing here is saying that everyone but you is a sheep being led around by the nose, without bothering to actually think about any issues. In other words, we're all stupid. Do you really expect to get away with that sort of asinine conversational technique? Do you really think you are very good at looking inside other people's heads? (you're not, by the way). Do you really think it's appropriate or beneficial to respond to individuals as if they were all the same type of stupid?

Just for the record, I am outraged by the legally imposed prejudice against gay people because I have lots of gay friends who are being discriminated against. I am outraged that the Bible is being used to spread hate. I'm outraged that people who find homosexuality icky are being allowed to turn their ick factor into laws. I don't pay much attention to anyone telling me what I ought to think -- I don't really listen to or read whatever liberal media and politicians are supposedly controlling my mind. If you don't like my outrage, can you tell me if the American South would have desegregated without a lot of outraged people? Would apartheid still exist if we hadn't gotten outraged about that? It was our outrage, in part, that ended the Viet Nam war. Sometimes, for important issues, it is necessary.

Here's a question for you: If you were at a coffee shop and fell into conversation with someone who was expressing extreme bigotry against blacks, would you tell them they were out of line, or would you tell them that the liberal press was the only reason they had to put up with all the anti-racist rhetoric?