You continue retreading the bigotry issue, knowing full well there is no equivalency.
I don't know full well there's no equivalency. I sincerely and strongly believe the issues are very similar. Maybe you think i'm lying?
Here's Mary Cheney from an interview on CNN making some of the points i've made:
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CHENEY: Well, obviously I think Senator Frist is wrong. The -- same-sex marriage is obviously an issue that we can degree on and that this country needs to debate. But the notion of amending the Constitution and writing -- basically writing discrimination into the Constitution of the United States is fundamentally wrong.
BLITZER: You write this on page 180 in your book: "If the Republican Party fails to come around on this issue (same-sex marriage), I believe it will find itself on the wrong side of history and on a sharp decline into irrelevance." Those are strong words.
CHENEY: They are strong words. And I did write them. And I believe them. I think if you look at polls, and I do talk about them in the book, this is not a conservative issue, not a liberal issue, not a Republican issue or Democrat issue. This is a generational issue.
And as, you know, voter -- as younger voters come -- as younger people come of age, what you're going to see is you're going to see resistance to same sex marriage dissipating, and you're going to see politicians who continue advocating on behalf of discrimination, particularly discrimination in the Constitution.
BLITZER: You see this in the book in which you go into great length as almost like treating gays and lesbians as second class citizens, real discrimination along the lines of what used to exist in this country with other minorities.
CHENEY: The analogy I use in the book, I don't think I use the word second class citizens anywhere. But the analogy I use in the book is when the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Virginia v. Loving, and forgive me if I don't remember the year. It was '62 or '67. Polls at the time showed it was one of the most unpopular decisions ever by the Supreme Court. Something like 72 percent of the people in America opposed the idea of interracial marriage.
Now 40 years later, looking back on that, can you imagine, as I talk about in the book, can you imagine any legitimate politician today coming out and speaking out against interracial marriage?
BLITZER: And you see this as basically the same issue?
CHENEY: I see it as very similar. I think they will follow very similar paths.
The discrimination is apparent and clear though you don't seem to see it.
The fact is you prefer calling me names that don't apply to considering reason and principle in discussion with me.
Arguing that straight marriage and relationships are superior to gay ones is about as straight forward as bigotry gets. The same arguments were made against interracial marriage and against integration, that Blacks were culturally inferior to whites and that it would be harmful to society to allow these things. Now you want us to believe that gays are culturally inferior to straights, that they are harmful to society.
Bigots usually think they have sincere and well meaning reasons for their views, but it's still bigotry. 72% were against interracial marriage when the supreme court struck down bans against it. Those people probably didn't think of themselves as bigots.
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