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thenewgreen  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Not Often Heard Voice

Simple question:

What are you afraid of? What do you think will happen if we grant same sex couples the same rights given to heterosexual couples? Two adults might get to live the way they want?.... oooh scary. An unwanted child might receive a loving home? -Run for the hills!

There's a world full of kind, loving, interesting people in relationships with people of their same gender. This exists. My wife and I know these people, chances are you do too. Leave them alone. You can hide your BULLYING behind all the religious and political rhetoric you want, but it's still bullying. Generations beyond you and I will look back at the people who think the way you do in the same vein as the Theodore Bilbo's of the past. I see the same co-opting of politics and religion that promoted segregation and warned of the dangers of interracial marriage/adoption with that of same sex marriage/adoption.

Like interracial marriage, it's going to be something that my children don't even see as odd. I'm fine with that. You should be too.