RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
July 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 5:25 pm by Regina.)
On one hand I do think the term "bigot" is over-used and I have said this before. It's lost all meaning in how the post-modernist left use it. Rather than being used to mean what it actually means, "intolerance of different ideas", it has become another word used to silence people. I can agree with A Theist on that.
However, a lot of these religous people constantly voicing their objections to gay marriage (or divorce, or abortion) are textbook cases of bigotry. It's not bigotry in itself to personally disagree with gay marriage, but it becomes bigotry when you take that belief and actively try to shut down gay marriage because you don't believe in it. I personally dislike seeing Muslim women wearing the Niqab, however if it was 100% her own personal un-pressured choice to wear it, I do have the maturity to think "well, she's grown, that's her choice". Therefore I'm not a bigot on that issue, because even if I don't agree I still respect and tolerate the right to make that choice.
However, a lot of these religous people constantly voicing their objections to gay marriage (or divorce, or abortion) are textbook cases of bigotry. It's not bigotry in itself to personally disagree with gay marriage, but it becomes bigotry when you take that belief and actively try to shut down gay marriage because you don't believe in it. I personally dislike seeing Muslim women wearing the Niqab, however if it was 100% her own personal un-pressured choice to wear it, I do have the maturity to think "well, she's grown, that's her choice". Therefore I'm not a bigot on that issue, because even if I don't agree I still respect and tolerate the right to make that choice.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
