So, twenty years ago, when homosexual marriage was not the law of the land...
Where were the teams of regulators and lawyers suing the non-official groups that would offer homosexuals non-legally binding weddings?
The groups of people who would mass-campaign to get people who supported homosexuality deplatformed, fired, and lose them their legal representation?
Where were the mainstream political and media-figures preaching
violence against people who supported homosexual marriage?
Yes, go back
eighty years, and you might see something more like that, but that's not something that I've seen FriedCFour advocate, and even when there
were laws against sodomy on the books, they were rarely enforced.
In America, when Christianity was the dominant cultural force, there was still an ideology of 'love the sinner, hate the sin.' There were radicals who wanted to hate the sinner too, yes, but those were the fringe, not the mainstream.
Now what is the political left doing with this, and every other issue they claim moral supremacy on?
Toe the party line, or we will get you fired, we will have you fined, and we will do our best to turn your name into mud. Even in here, there's a strong current of 'shut up, you don't get to share your thoughts, you're just
wrong.' There is no 'love the sinner, hate the sin,' there is 'You are guilty of wrongthink, and therefore must be sent to the camps for reeducation.' And as basically every figure on the Intellectual Dark Web agrees, there
is no forgiveness or redemption on the left.
I don't agree with all of FC4's positions, I
do think he's at least a little bit authoritarian, but I don't really see people pushing the other side of this issue have any ground to be accusing others of being tyrants.
Here, now, I'm dealing with Neo-reactionary muppets who think the LGBT movement will go away if they just get rid of gay marriage. It's exactly the same sort of "baby out with the bathwater" nonsense the left does.
I don't know
anybody who thinks like this, but I'm getting really sick of hearing different variations on this argument:
"You conservative christians are evil for expecting other people to use your religious definition of marriage!"
"Then what definition are we supposed to use?"
"
Our religious definition of marriage!"
"Why should I treat your religion as real, but not mine? Also, it's not just a religious definition, historically, every single culture has-"
"Shut up! You're evil!"