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[pixxers]

This made me a little teary. I can't believe what a weenie I am.

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I've got an idea. How about those people who are denied the right to marry and extend benefits to their significant others just don't pay any more state taxes? How can you tax someone who does not receive the same benefits that every other (hetero) taxpayer receives? I think this

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[everythingonit]

Oh, my best friend is Jewish. :3 That's why I joined the Nazi party. ...Wait, Nazi party does what?! O___O

I think the same crazy shit happened a long time ago.

Everyone needs to chillax.

[pixxers]

Exactly. -__-

You know, S - when I hear someone make statements like the one this co-worker made recently, they become a non-entity in my world. I am judgmental in situtations like this, but I feel it's justified. Because if someone is preaching an irrational hate, there's no common ground to find.

Everyone needs to chillax and worry about themselves and not other people.

[everythingonit]

It's not irrational hate. It's a belief that she holds based on her experiences and what she's been taught, the sum of her life, even if she does have a gay friend. That doesn't matter. She probably doesn't think of her gay friend as "my gay friend" when they're hanging out, she probably just thinks of them as a person.

The issue is an issue to her, her friend is her friend. It's not really personal to her, unless that friend appeared one day and was like, "I want to get married and I can't." Something in me suspects two things culd happen:

The your co-worker would move on the issue or she would tell her friend, "I don't think gays should marry" and then bam, no friendship. However, being friends I'm sure her "gay friend" knows this.

It's like how people have "black" friends but know damn well they clutch their purses or tense up when they see black people or anticipate a problem when dealing with them.

[dawnrune]

How can you care about someone and yet feel completely justified in letting them know that they are below you in terms of rights and/or happiness?

THIS. And have these Bible-thumping bigots forgotten when Jesus said "Love thy neighbor as yourself"? Do gay people somehow not count, despite the fact that they're human beings like the rest of us? You cannot love gay people and disapprove of their love. It does not work that way. It does not make sense. It is a double-standard, hypocritical! And it certainly wasn't Jesus that decided two hundred years ago that black people weren't human, thus could be slaves, let alone that gays didn't deserve to love. WTFWTF? The things people do in the name of Jesus really makes me sick. He was such a cool guy!!!

I don't believe most of the Bible, though I admire Jesus. After all, it was written, revised 48375923487529834 times, and flowered up and reworded BY MAN. A bunch of men who never even knew the real Jesus at that. Hello logic!

[dropsofgleam]

Dudette, the video didn't show up for me at first. And when it did, I didn't feel like clicking since I'm finishing a paper and don't want my braincells to die before I'm done typing the goddamn uni thing. >3

[commonpeople]

I hope you hurt her feelings. A lot.

[kishmet]

I have become, lately, so incredibly intolerant of people who eschew another person's right to happiness simply because it doesn't agree with whatever interpretation of the bible they've chosen to believe in. This. Yesterday at school, someone mentioned the passing of Prop 8, and this one girl started applauding. I wanted to punch her in the face, though I felt like a bitch for thinking so. :(

Thank you for posting this. ♥