Comment by coldpie
8 years ago
I had a response all typed up, but I wiped it, because I'm being unproductive by trying to argue. I should be trying to understand.
My viewpoint is that the only reason to oppose gay marriage is because you believe that gay relationships are inferior to straight relationships. Can you please explain to me a reason to oppose gay marriage other than that? You listed a few earlier:
> People who didn't like the Foucauldian agenda behind the whole thing, or the judicial overreach, or mayors like Newsom overreaching, supported Prop 8.
I don't know what "Foucauldian agenda" means. Sorry.
"Judicial/Newsom overreach" don't make sense to me in the context of a public referendum. These people voted against something they wanted just to prove a point about something else(?); and then what, they were going to vote in favor of it again sometime in the future? Okay, but that's pretty baffling behavior.
I just have a hard time believing anyone in support of gay rights would choose to vote against gay rights and support anti-gay organizations. Maybe you can explain this more for me.
"These people voted against something they wanted" -- no, people objecting to judicial and mayoral overreach voted to override that overreach. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721928 on judicial restraint. I'm baffled you got my point exactly backwards, so pausing here.