I bet their two dads love them too
DOMA being defeated has caused right wing heads to explode across the nation. This of course has also brought the bigoted trolls out of from under the bridges they hide under. Earlier today a friend of mine had posted on Facebook, and has since taken down, a post in support of DOMA being overturned. This of course brought out the inevitable response that stated the following arguments against gay marriage:
- You will be able to marry your dog or multiple people.
- I have been married 40 years (which I am not sure why that is an argument for or against gay marriage).
- The church says it is wrong.
- Call it a civil union.
She claimed to have marched for civil rights in the '60s and then claimed that she was glad she took critical thinking in college. I politely informed her that she was not thinking critically, that the dog argument was silly, reminded her about the separation of church, and that separate but equal was an argument that she was supposedly marching against in the 60's.
At this point she stated that separate but equal was just a liberal talking point in the 60's.
I called her a bigot.
Someone else then jumped into the fray and berated me for calling her a bigot. That we must stay civil and not name-call in order to have reasonable debates in order to nudge people to our side.
big·ot
noun ˈbi-gət\
- a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Examples of BIGOT
He was labeled a bigot after making some offensive comments.
I fail to understand or see how one can have a reasonable debate with someone who is unreasonable. I call a rock a rock, and I will call a bigot a bigot. If it hurts their feelings or shames them because they have been called a bigot so be it. I am not going to put up with intolerance, I am not going to put up with hate, and I damn sure am not going to apologize for calling a bigot a bigot.
There comes a point where reasonable debate must end as one just spins their wheels in talking to the other side - a bigot is a bigot, you cannot debate them, you cannot change their mind; however, I have found that they hate being called what they are. When bigotry rears up its ugly head against people of any color, race, creed, nationality, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap using the same arguments that segregationists used to protect their separate but equal system, I will call them exactly what they are, a bigot - and I will not apologize for it.