Gay Attacks In Media Rise

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/010605media.htm

Less than a week into the new year and attacks on gays in the mainstream media are on the rise.

Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell this week in an attack on same-sex marriage wrote that " it is not even clear how many homosexuals actually want marriage, even though gay activists are pushing it. What the activists really want is the stamp of acceptance on homosexuality, as a means of spreading that lifestyle, which has become a death style in the era of AIDS."

In another part of the column he writes, "Marriage is not a right extended to individuals by the government. It is a restriction on the rights they already have," and "Society has no such stake in the outcome of a union between two people of the same sex. Transferring all those laws to same-sex couples would make no more sense than transferring the rules of baseball to football" -- statements so silly that, despite their underlying offensiveness, it is difficult to take them seriously."


how do you respond to these assholes--I'm to the point where I either want to pound my head against the wall or theirs

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Paragraph 1... Sowell is actually half right... but....

by the same token anti-gay activists "really want" to assert their personal disapproval of H, and are using this issue as a means to that end. The rest of that paragraph is just irrational nonsense, as NO ONE is interested in "spreading that lifestyle", the concious and subconcious fears and fantasies of some heteros like Sowell notwithstanding.

Paragraph 2 is fallacious from the outset: marriage is both a right and a restriction... not simply a restriction. Many rights and advantages are available to wed couples that are unavailable to unwed couples. Sowell's view of marriage as a sort of bondage is an interesting one. I wonder what his wife, if he has one , would think of that.

The rest of tha paragraph does not appear to follow from the beginning, so I wouldn't bother "banging your head" over this.