Talk about being close-minded...

[darrelx]

Bovil recently bragged about his and his partner's marriage certificate on his LJ, and I asked a fairly innocuous question about his point of view of how this is different (In California) from a domestic partnership

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[theresamather]

Darrel, dude....

There's nothing wrong with asking questions, but that wasn't the thread to do it on.

[darrelx]

Why? Because most of the viewers of that thread would misunderstand what I was asking? Because most of them would probably think that my post was gay-bashing?

Sorry... but political correctness is not the way I run, you know that.

I usually hope for intelligent discussion, ESPECIALLY from people who don't share my opinion. That's the best way to keep informed.

I very carefully worded my comment to Bovil's thread to avoid being misunderstood or being stereotyped into someone who was homophobic... but the response was a mis-applied "talking point" analogizing civil rights in the 50's and 60's that only applies if you think that domestic partners have any more or less rights than same-sex married couples...

But the law sees BOTH exactly the same, which is why I asked the question to someone who would (I thought) be able to answer it with first-hand knowledge.

[barry_short]

Because you walked into their party and pissed on the cake.

[esprix]

IAWTC.

I know you, D, and I like you, but why do you insist on picking fights with people all the time? There's a time and a place to play Devil's Advocate, and that wasn't it, and I think you should cop to it and, frankly, apologize to bovil. If you'd wanted a debate, you were free to start one in your own LJ (which you did), but not until you tried to pick an argument in his.

Poor form, old boy.

[darrelx]

But the point is that I wasn't trying to pick a fight... I was trying to delicately ask a question... I even prefaced the question with "I don't want to start a ruccus..." because I was afraid that my question might be taken wrong if I didn't say that up front

[theresamather]

As I said, that wasn't the thread to do it on. It wasn't a debate thread, it was a thread to say either "congratulations" or say nothing on... it has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with basic civility.