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Reply #60: I can imagine, but that doesn't mean it's not homophobia. [View All]

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mondo joe

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Sun Dec-21-08 08:17 PM
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60. I can imagine, but that doesn't mean it's not homophobia.

You can want me to pretty it up so it sounds nicer, but I can't because it's not true.

And segregation is the perfect corollary. There were segregationists who didn't want blacks enslaved, or not able to vote - they just didn't want their daughter to go to school with them and end up marrying one.

Hell, Jesse Helms never came out with legislation to take away the right of blacks to vote, or own property, or marry. But he was still a racist.

Racism is a nasty word. Homophobia is too. But opposing equal rights, for any reason, is nastier.

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