Reply #78: It's like saying "Too bad Kerry went to Vietnam, now the SwiftVets can...

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use that against him." Too bad that some gay American citizens wanted "marrage" rights.

You know, had one gay person or 10 million pushed this agenda, the RW machine would have spinned it the exact same way. If NOT ONE SINGLE gay person used the word marriage, and civil union was the term used by the "movement" they still would have spinned it the same way. They would have equated civil union with marriage and done the exact same fear-mongering among the religious right. Yes, they have tremendous skill.

And by the way... you're wrong... it is not just the word they want. Ask a few of them... some of them would like us to just disappear, and some of them would like us dead. Most of them don't see us as the same kind of human beings they are, and view us "abominations" and "sinners." No it's not just the word they want. They want to make sure that nothing is done to elevate gay american citizens to the same status, rights-wise, as straight americans.