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[Withywindle]

I still can't believe some of the lame excuses people use for waffling on this issue.

I can't understand the mentality that bigotry ought to be treated with kid gloves or worse, "respect" if it's a matter of "faith." BULLSHIT. Ideas don't deserve "respect" or even "tolerance" because of religion. Ideas, like people, either earn respect or they don't on their merits. And the idea that LGBTQ people and relationships are in ANY way inferior to hetero ones has about as much merit as the "Rapture Ready" belief that solar flares are caused by angels on the sun. (Less, really! Space is still mysterious to us. Human rights and equality shouldn't be.) And it has about the same proper place on DU: the Lounge, being mocked mercilessly.