Reply #1: One I've seen bandied-about on various forums...

[Kutjara]

...is that "the Gays" have the same rights as anyone else. A gay man can marry a woman, just like a straight one can, and a lesbian can marry a man, just like a straight woman can. Where's the discrimination? Everyone is treated equally! Hallelujah!

I file this under the category of arguments so stupid it's almost impossible to know where to begin to refute them. What's disturbing is that the strategy of countering it by simply replacing "gay" and "straight" with "black" and "white", which used to merely get me accused of "playing the tired old race card again," now often leads to a stream of racist invective. It seems the haters have been given permission to dust off that good ol' bigotry and take it out in public again.