hikaricloud
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I'm all for people having their own opinions. I may heavily disagree with them, I may think the opinions are stupid, but they have a right to them.
That being said, I personally feel like this whole situation is disgusting. This is similar to when Target was found to be donating money to support anti-gay legislation, though I think this is on a much larger scale due to the fact there's an election coming up. There have been pictures of high-profile conservatives (read: Sarah Palin) posing for a phone picture (forgetting the fact that the reason she was able to take the picture or upload it in the first place is because of companies with a pro-gay stance...fail) as if she's a strong figure standing up for what she believes in...right.
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Not to mention Michele Bachmann, whose husband owns and runs one of those "Pray Away the Gay" clinics.
I can understand why people want to boycott the "restaurant" when some of the money from their purchases funds bigoted causes. Heck, I can even understand the people that want to still eat there regardless (even if they don't agree with the stance), but what I can't ever seem to wrap my head around is this. It's the 21st friggin' century. It's time for people to grow the **** up and start accepting the cold hard facts: gay people are still people. And homosexuality has existed for pretty much...always. There's homosexuality in nature, there is homosexuality in human history, and there's homosexuality now. Deal with it.
As for using religion as a reason, once again, I scoff. For a group of people who are supposedly the "moral majority", the hate that spews from these people's mouths is nothing short of pure bile. Don't get me wrong, I'm not speaking about everyone that cracks open a bible, but the sheer numbers of these supposed "Christians" are being very not Christ-like. Using the Bible as a basis for their argument seems a bit silly to me. I take the Patton Oswalt stance on this:
As a disclaimer, I'm agnostic, and I am full of skepticism when it comes to organized religion as a whole. But I have no problem if someone believes in it. I won't condemn someone's beliefs just because they don't make any sense [to me], but I acknowledge people's beliefs. If they want to believe that stuff, cool. It's when it works its way into social policy and hate that I get a problem. I have a problem when I hear a father talking about his son being gay and saying something to the tune of "I think he just did it to get back at me." I have a problem when other human beings are denied the same rights we all have access, whether it be because of their sex, race, or sexual preference. I have a problem when people deify politicians and celebrities for hating a group of people. The bottom line is no matter why you support this whole anti-gay sentiment, you still support making a group of people second class citizens. I will defend your right to that opinion to the death, but that opinion is [in my opinion] disgusting.
That being said, I personally feel like this whole situation is disgusting. This is similar to when Target was found to be donating money to support anti-gay legislation, though I think this is on a much larger scale due to the fact there's an election coming up. There have been pictures of high-profile conservatives (read: Sarah Palin) posing for a phone picture (forgetting the fact that the reason she was able to take the picture or upload it in the first place is because of companies with a pro-gay stance...fail) as if she's a strong figure standing up for what she believes in...right.
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Not to mention Michele Bachmann, whose husband owns and runs one of those "Pray Away the Gay" clinics.
I can understand why people want to boycott the "restaurant" when some of the money from their purchases funds bigoted causes. Heck, I can even understand the people that want to still eat there regardless (even if they don't agree with the stance), but what I can't ever seem to wrap my head around is this. It's the 21st friggin' century. It's time for people to grow the **** up and start accepting the cold hard facts: gay people are still people. And homosexuality has existed for pretty much...always. There's homosexuality in nature, there is homosexuality in human history, and there's homosexuality now. Deal with it.
As for using religion as a reason, once again, I scoff. For a group of people who are supposedly the "moral majority", the hate that spews from these people's mouths is nothing short of pure bile. Don't get me wrong, I'm not speaking about everyone that cracks open a bible, but the sheer numbers of these supposed "Christians" are being very not Christ-like. Using the Bible as a basis for their argument seems a bit silly to me. I take the Patton Oswalt stance on this:
As a disclaimer, I'm agnostic, and I am full of skepticism when it comes to organized religion as a whole. But I have no problem if someone believes in it. I won't condemn someone's beliefs just because they don't make any sense [to me], but I acknowledge people's beliefs. If they want to believe that stuff, cool. It's when it works its way into social policy and hate that I get a problem. I have a problem when I hear a father talking about his son being gay and saying something to the tune of "I think he just did it to get back at me." I have a problem when other human beings are denied the same rights we all have access, whether it be because of their sex, race, or sexual preference. I have a problem when people deify politicians and celebrities for hating a group of people. The bottom line is no matter why you support this whole anti-gay sentiment, you still support making a group of people second class citizens. I will defend your right to that opinion to the death, but that opinion is [in my opinion] disgusting.
