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[lillibet]

One of the things that's frustrating about the whole issue of gay rights is that it often seems resistant to rational argument. What changes minds, all too often, is personal experience. This article in the Boston Globe includes the following story:

Candaras had voted for the amendment when she was a House member representing a relatively

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[ayelle]

Now there's a nice idea! You're right, there is no way to rationally argue the issue, because the arguments against it are wholly irrational. I can't even begin to engage in debate on the subject any more, even with someone who might be willing to listen to the other side, because I'm incapable of seeing it as anything other than bigotry (which does NOT mean I think that all people who hold that opinion are bigots; only that the arguments against gay marriage are directly parallel to the arguments against interracial marriage, i.e., based on nothing but irrational bias and impervious to any kind of logic). It's nice to think there's another way to push for change, when the merits of logical debate have been essentially exhausted.