Roybattery wrote:
Two other issues i have with gay activists. One, here in Chicago there is the gay pride parade. I'm sure most big cities have them. While I'm very much a "live and let live" type of person, I am disgusted by these parades and shocked that policitians support them. Not because they are gay pride parades but rather the whole sexuality displayed in public - during the day - for all to see. Here is a parade that features men in black leather, bare-ass showing and basically dry humping each other while on floats. All the while Mayor Daley gives his hip-hip-horray for gay pride. And people wonder why this is issue pushes people buttons? You don't have to be a fundy-Bible thumber to say "hey, i don't want my kids exposed to that." Secondly, I do agree (somewhat) with the slippery-slope argument. Since it is a common argument that homosexuality and gay marriage is between two consenting adults, one could use this same argument about siblings getting married or for that matter a parent their child. If we as a society condone gay marriage, why not any marriage between consenting adults?
It's simple really. Just because a majority of people think something is 'ok' doesn't give them the right to inflict that opinion on others. You cannot deprive me of life, liberty, nor the pursuit of happiness simply because you (straight people) are in the majority.
I'm sure you rejoiced, and celebrated the Supreme Court's decision when you were a Witness for them upholding JWs rights to knock on doors and practice their religion with freedom. Towns and cities had voted to make door to door preaching illegal. And whether you 'get sick of it' or not, comparing racial inequalities of the past is exactly the same thing, and very much a part of the topical discussion. The vast majority of Americans thought the Iraq war was a good thing when it started. The same thing when the Japanese internment started in WWII. Just because a majority thinks something is 'ok' or even 'right' doesn't give them the right to trample other's freedoms. Period. End of story.
If you have such an issue with gay pride parades, why are you attending them? Funny why you would mention Gay Pride, yet not mention the drunken, 'dry humping' of straight people during the St. Patrick's Day parade / festival in Chicago. Why is that?
