And this same reasoning applies to many other issues too.
Yes, the liberal talking point is that you are homophobic and hateful if you oppose homosexual marriage.
If you oppose abortion on demand, you hate women. That is part of the war on women meme. You hate women if you oppose such abortion policies, and in fact, you want to see females impaled on rusty coat hangers.
If you oppose affirmative action, you are a racist.
If you oppose global warming, you hate a clean environment. And in fact, you are in favor of dirty water and dirty air.
If you oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, or oppose Obama’s executive order on the subject, you are xenophobic and also bigoted against Mexican-Americans. It is said that you wouldn’t oppose such policies if we were talking about illegals of European background.
If you want to see changes to Medicare to help its solvency, such as Paul Ryan’s proposals, you want to throw granny off a cliff.
If you want to see changes in federal entitlement programs, cutbacks in food stamps, for example, you want children to starve. As Howard Dean once said, Democrat values are that they don’t want to see kids go to bed hungry. The clear implication from Dean is that evil Republicans are in favor of kids being hungry.
If you oppose Obamacare, then you are in favor of people losing health insurance and any healthcare coverage.
and so it goes. I’m sure there are other examples of liberal reasoning, but the issue at hand, that you hate a homosexual if you oppose homosexual marriage, ties in with a mindset through which liberals tend to view the issues of the day.
So we turn that back on them. "You hate children so much you want to see them torn apart and flushed away, you progressive hater!"