Senate officially opens debate on Gay Marriage Amendment.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Park Avenue

In a busy shopping centre, with families etc, the majority do not want to see gays touching. You need to talk within a context.

Dispite what you wackos think, interacting with gays will not "corrupt" kids.

[Last Conformist]

To be fair, his argument is that the beliefs of wackos are more important than truth.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Majority of whom?

Majority of human beings.

In a busy shopping centre, with families etc, the majority do not want to see gays touching. You need to talk within a context.

In a busy shopping center, the majority do not advocate assault or murder.

It's sad that you believe that homosexuality will have a worse influence on children than assault/murder.

Except in the lynch mob itself, you're not going to find a majority who believe that it should be legal to beat up and/or murder homosexuals.

[Solly]

Except in the lynch mob itself, you're not going to find a majority who believe that it should be legal to beat up and/or murder homosexuals.

Where did a lynch mob come into it?

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Where did a lynch mob come into it?

When you advocated the assault/murder of homosexuals. Unless you only meant to advocate the assault/murder of homosexuals by individual "vigilantes," and are opposed to the assault/murder of homosexuals by groups of "vigilantes."

[Solly]

Assault? Murder? at the idiocy of you lot.

[loinburger]

Then what exactly were you advocating when you said that vigilantism against homosexuals shouldn't be prosecuted? Did you mean that vigilantes could politely ask homosexuals to stop kissing in public?

In other words, what should vigilantes be allowed to do against homosexuals without fear of prosecution?

[Solly]

I don't think you're understand vigilantes, really.

[loinburger]

dp

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
I don't think you're understand vigilantes, really.

That doesn't answer my question. What should vigilantes be allowed to do against homosexuals without fear of prosecution? Or were you just blowing hot air before when you were advocating vigilantism?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
"The majority opinion is that assault and murder are illegal, ergo, participating in or inciting a lynching is illegal."

Majority of whom?

In a busy shopping centre, with families etc, the majority do not want to see gays touching. You need to talk within a context.

We have talked along this line before -- we already know that you support tyranny of the majority. For instance, in Nazi Germany, if it were the case that the majority of Germans had supported Hitler's Holocaust policy then I suppose the Holocaust was morally justified.

This is not godwin by the way -- it's an extreme, but legitimate example to show the repugnancy of advocating tyranny of the majority. I'm sure others can pick more moderate examples to illustrate the wrongfulness of tyranny of the majority.


And even IF it's the case that the majority of people want gays to repress themselves, gays need not submit to such bigoted demands, since gays are not the ones who have problems with gays. In other words, just because there are homophobes out there and they have their own problems with gays, does not mean I'm going to repress myself -- it's their problem, not mine.

[Kuciwalker]

This is not godwin by the way -- it's an extreme, but legitimate example to show the repugnancy of advocating tyranny of the majority. I'm sure others can pick more moderate examples to illustrate the wrongfulness of tyranny of the majority.

It's still Godwin.

[red_jon]

Parky clearly means that the vigilantes will get together, write a polite letter and hand it to the offending couple.

Just like in frontier times.

I don't believe I shouldn't be allowed to hold hands with someone I'm in love with in public, so I'm not going to stop just because a prejudiced minority are offended by it.

If you ask me, seeing gay couples interract reminds certain people of what they want but are too afraid to go out and have, so they want to repress it.

[Solly]

All the part-time psychologists are out again

If you want to discuss psychological problems, feel free to make yourselves subjects first.

[Whaleboy]

Can we write a polite letter to you explaining how you suck?