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To be clear, I'm not arguing the rights and wrongs of gay marriage, just that it can be a cop-out to always label an opposing view as "hate".
by taylorius 5y ago
To be clear, I'm not arguing the rights and wrongs of gay marriage, just that it can be a cop-out to always label an opposing view as "hate".
- DonHopkins 5y agoIt's not just an opposing view of somebody's favorite color or brand, it's a fundamental disagreement about human rights, and the Supreme Court has already ruled that human rights shouldn't be decided by the popular vote, that same sex marriage is a "fundamental right inherent in the liberty of a person", and that Brendan Eich is incorrect in his beliefs that same sex marriage should be against the law, and is on the wrong side of history, law, and the US Constitution. >“…the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same-sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty. The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them.” -Justice Anthony Kennedy And the same people who are so offended at calling Brendan's dehumanization of same sex couples "hate" are usually the same ones also claiming to "hate" Mozilla and "hate" discussions about Brendan Eich's support for Proposition 8, so they've already set the bar extremely low for the definition of "hate", and they don't have a leg to stand on trying to move the goalposts by redefining "hate" in the next sentence.