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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (132721)	3/21/2001 8:51:58 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 769667

I'm not actually sure they meant to be insulting, as such - perhaps that's why I see their arguments as offensive? As I implied, I've no real opinion on gay marriages, one way or another, except that if there's a special status in law granted to 'marriage' I can't see how we can now restrict it by gender. (If you want to be married in church, I take the opposite tack - if you want sanction from a belief system, then you have to confrom to the beliefs of said system, and if you don't like some of them, your problem). But I did get a sense of directed animosity - revulsion, loathing, true distaste, whatever - towards gays... and if I notice that, then I suspect it's far worse for someone who is gay and will therefore take it personally. I don't believe such views cannot be expressed - that is the freedom and right of those who hold such opinions: but equally, my right and my wish is to refute them, and above all to oppose their views being forced on others...