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0 pointssliverstorm12y ago0 comments

No no, it's already been clearly established in these threads. The pro-gay-marriage side is the only side that gets to speak their minds, because they are the side that is right.

That's how freedom of speech works, after all. Only the person who is right gets it.

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MetaCosm12y ago· 2 in thread

You are free to say what you want, and free to deal with the repercussions. Everything can be framed as having two sides, but society at a certain point decides there isn't two sides.

The "pro-interracial-marriage" side is the only side that gets to speak its mind these days, because they are the side that is right. Try coming out as against interracial marriage and you will be run out of your company on a rail, as you should be, rinse and repeat for gay marriage.

sliverstormOP12y ago

They aren't really the side that is right, they are just the side that has 99% of people. Gay marriage is contentious because it's practically an even split right now.

MetaCosm12y ago

61% of young Republican leaning Americans (18-29) support marriage equality. The issue is settled, the trajectory is clear, it is just a few years until it will all be shaken out and boring and stats about people being against gay marriage will be treated with awe and shock.

In 1986, only around 30% of Americans "approved" of interracial relationships -- now about that number have a family member IN an interracial relationship. Things move faster now, and in just a few years, the idea of being against same-sex marriage will seem just as insane about being against interracial marriage.

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