Reply #320: I do support your right to marry and adopt kids. [View All]

But I don't support hate crimes legislation. Sorry if that makes you see me as an enemy or put me on ignore.

I don't hate anyone or have anyone on ignore, even OMC who ALWAYS has some free-market, anti-progressive quip about any post I make.

I don't blanket judge people for coming to a different conclusion than I have on ONE issue. I do care what you and others think, and if I didn't I wouldn't have spent so damn much time trying to get my point across in this thread.

Look at it another way, I am about as rabid anti-war as a person could get when it comes to Iraq. As I wrote in my sig, I think Bush & Co are war criminals who should be put in the dock at the Hague and tried for mass murder. And in a just world, every legislator who voted for that monstrosity of a war would removed from office and tried as an accomplice.

But I realize that that is not going to happen, so I end up having to vote for people who voted for that garbage in a sheer act of cowardice. And if I was to meet up with Hillary Clinton for example, I'd shake her hand and wish her luck, not spit in her face for her role in that slaughter. We have to make compromises and find common ground with people we may sometimes disagree with.

I don't see the "incredible homophobia" in this thread that you do. I see a lot of people making good points about why they think hate crimes legislation should be the law of the land, and I have admittedly done a bad job defending my side.


But I guess we each have that one issue that just drives us nuts when people trample on it.

For me it's "flat taxes" or school vouchers, or any other GOP gimmick designed to help the rich at the expense of the poor. It makes me insane when people here try to push that stuff and makes mw want to throw my hands up in frustration. I can't abide by schemes to exacerbate the already gaping class divide in the US.

So I can see why you react the way you do if this is an issue close to your heart, and I respect that. I disagree on that one point, and I haven't been able to articulate the reasons as well as I would like to, but it really shouldn't make me your enemy. We probably agree on a LOT more things than we disagree on, including GLBT issues.