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David Harsanyi: Was I Wrong To Support Gay Marriage?
The Federalist ^ | June 30, 2015 | David Harsanyi, senior editor

Posted on 06/30/2015 8:17:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If same-sex marriage is used to pummel religious Americans into submission, it will be a disaster.

I’ve supported same-sex marriage ever since I first heard the idea. And when I became a political columnist in the early 2000s—despite being the “conservative” at a good-sized newspaper—I was the only one at the paper (as far as I can recall) who unequivocally backed gay marriage publicly. Though I wasn’t gullible enough to believe I’d be persuading many readers, I was gullible enough to believe that my allies in the cause were merely concerned with “equality.”

As we dig out from the avalanche of half-baked platitudes about “love being love” and watch alleged news organizations and the White House adorn themselves in cheerful rainbows, we can look forward to the self-righteous mobs that will be defaming anyone who is reluctant to embrace the state’s new definition of marriage. Love is love, except when a person loves their God and follows the principles of their faith, evidently.

Do a majority of Americans who support gay marriage believe these traditionalists deserve to be treated like unrepentant Klan boosters? Of course, there will always be the obnoxious Puritan, as the quote goes, who loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart...

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: buyersremorse; davidharsanyi; fascism; gaymarriage; heretics; homosexualagenda; liberaltarians; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; obamanation; samesexmaaiage; sodomandgomorrah; ssm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you are the only one in the room who doesn’t know who the mark is-you are the mark. Classic sucker.


21 posted on 06/30/2015 11:19:21 PM PDT by Liberdad (None)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the homonazis are not Libertarian..they are hardcore marxists.

After the attacks on the Religious Freedom Amendments no longer is willful ignorance an excuse to not knowing the ultimate goals of homonazis!


22 posted on 06/30/2015 11:20:11 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dave, it’s never, ever just the tip.


23 posted on 06/30/2015 11:48:43 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it. Why not me?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“And I have no moral qualms about same-sex marriage itself. I don’t believe it destabilizes the institution or ruins the lives of children. Then again, it doesn’t exist in a vacuum, either.”

Translation: I have absolutely no beliefs at all so whatever I say, I say, much like Alice’s Jabberwocky.


24 posted on 07/01/2015 3:35:46 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: RichInOC

LOL

Cc


25 posted on 07/01/2015 3:56:07 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But this isn’t what I meant”!


26 posted on 07/01/2015 4:07:52 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: cherry

What is that road to Hell paved with?


27 posted on 07/01/2015 4:54:29 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But HE is sooo smart and we well we are just bigots. The problems people like this cause are endless.


28 posted on 07/01/2015 5:13:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But HE is sooo smart and we well we are just bigots. The problems people like this cause are endless.


29 posted on 07/01/2015 5:13:42 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Idiot.>>>>>

I second that, plus there are a few other words I have in mind which I won`t print, and a whole lot more for the sodomite loving S.O.Bs on the supreme court.


30 posted on 07/01/2015 7:25:36 AM PDT by ravenwolf (t)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“David Harsanyi: Was I Wrong To Support Gay Marriage?”

Yep.


31 posted on 07/01/2015 7:26:07 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course you were, you fool.


32 posted on 07/01/2015 7:30:31 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Answer can be found in Animal House:

Otter to Flounder: you effed up, you trusted us.

33 posted on 07/01/2015 7:58:25 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: tinamina

He is inclusive, very inclusive. In the Bible, everyone who is included in the group that He does not know will hear ‘Depart from me.’ The saddest and scariest words in the Bible.


34 posted on 07/02/2015 2:50:04 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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