This Graphic Will Offend Your Anti-Gay Relatives – Guaranteed!

[Playinghardball]

Sometimes offending people is necessary


Found on the Facebook page of God/MoveOn.org

[RC]

1. The people that need to see that, can't see the similarities. They can't get it.

[n2doc]

2. Or they still think the folks in the bottom panel are 'heroes'

And dream of fighting that battle again.

[Plucketeer]

5. Yeah - "taking America back"

to the Good ol' Days.

[kardonb]

8. yeah

That's right . Lets take our country back from the brink Bonehead and "friends " want o take us over !

[alfredo]

9. Remember the frat boys in Borat wanting to bring back slavery?

[Poll_Blind]

3. Fuckin Aye!

PB

[arely staircase]

4. THAT nt

[pokerfan]

6. Traditions

[beac]

15. That one's great too! n/t

[azurnoir]

7. +1 K&R n/t

[Shankapotomus]

10. Perfect. That's my go-to graphic for

the online homophobes from now on.

[theaocp]

11. How many of these folk

are for banning divorce?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. Apples and Oranges. Stick to civil rights and what marriage legally means.

[berni_mccoy]

13. Um...

wha?

[liberalhistorian]

16. Then please tell us, O Wise One,

why marriage equality should NOT be considered a civil right????????

[SleeplessinSoCal]

32. A marriage contract is a civil right....

... but it's not comparable to interracial marriage. That was based on racism. Religion wasn't a factor. The entire argument against same sex marriage is based on the Old Testament.

I think it's more important to stress what a marriage contract means as a civil right and as a financial burden.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

35. "Religion wasn't a factor"

Bullshit. You really need to read up on the subject.

Just a suggestion.

[FreeState]

38. Heres a link for you - arguments were Bible based

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar14.htm

[eaglesfanintn]

17. Since when...

is marriage not a right? Driving your car is a privilege, marriage is a right.
It wasn't so long ago that people of different races weren't allowed to marry. Is a white man marrying a black woman not a right? So, if that black woman becomes a black man, what changed? They still love each other, are committed to each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. Who are you to prevent that?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

33. Exactly. I don't think any religious people will be won over by claims that it's a right though....

My gut tells me that getting to the crux of what a contract of marriage is will be more likely to turn down the heat on the debate. And stressing that the right to marry is purely legal and that religious ceremonies are dependent on the parties involved will win over another segment of the population. Civil Rights come with a price. It's worth paying, but often means several steps backwards before catching up and going forward.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/15/opinion/la-oe-segall-gay-marriage-backlash-20120515

[Kali]

24. say what?

[eShirl]

26. Fly a kite.

[jeff47]

30. Um....

The people in the top photo are protesting to "protect marriage".

The people in the bottom photo are protesting to "protect marriage".

The difference is......?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

34. The difference is religion.

[jeff47]

36. No, actually it isn't.

Preachers in the era of the lower photo spent a lot of time preaching how God created multiple races, and man shouldn't mix them. Many churches were quite upset that interracial marriage would be forced upon them.

But feel free to try again.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

37. Why on earth was it so difficult for the NAACP to support gay marriage? And why the pushback . . .

now that they support it? It's because pastors in most black churches have condemned homosexuality. I've had this debate many times and fear that this road is leading to a dead end. Whereas legal arguments will win in eventually. Stick to civil rights and the contract. Take out the emotional charge. That's my 2 cents. Take it or leave it.

[jeff47]

39. The reason religion is not different

is because religion was used in both situations.

It doesn't matter if black churches are now speaking out against marriage equality. Because churches were speaking out against interracial marriage. It's the exact same thing.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

40. I disagree. Religion is used as the sole reason/excuse for preventing gays to marry.

Which is why so many church going black Americans in California oppose gay marriage. Even though they may have gained rights before 1967, their relatively progressive community (and their personal bias) have them on the wrong side of history.

Plus if you look at this map you see a civil war era divide. To me that says not religion, but racism was more of a factor for banning interracial marriage.



U.S States, by the date of repeal of anti-miscegenation laws:
gray - No laws passed
green - Repealed before 1887
yellow -Repealed from 1948 to 1967
red - Overturned on 12 June 1967

[FreeState]

42. What so southern prejudice wast based on religion?

When I look at that map I see something very simulate to the hate map at Souther Poverty Law Center, and nearly all of the groups base their beliefs about race on religion.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map

[FreeState]

41. NAACP's Long History on LGBT Equality

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nadine-smith/naacps-long-history-on-lg_b_1532500.html

This isn't the first time the NAACP has stepped out on principle on an issue that affects the lives of LGBT people. Nor is it the first time they will experience a predictable, orchestrated backlash. Those of us celebrating their decision to support marriage equality must now also step up on the organization's behalf.

Over the weekend, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization took the logical yet heroic step of publicly supporting marriage rights for gay couples. In doing so, the NAACP has joined President Obama and Hispanic civil rights leaders in dramatically accelerating the movement for marriage equality and hastening the day when it becomes the law of the land. The exhilaration and pride I felt as a black lesbian in my civil rights organization took me back nearly 20 years, to the time that the NAACP stepped out on a skinnier limb at a pivotal moment to stand up for LGBT equality.

[beac]

14. K&R! (and right-clicked and saved!) n/t

[malthaussen]

18. I swear I recognize some people in the top pic from the bottom one.

But the caption is foolish. These people do not look "stupid" to the only people they care about -- their fellow bigots.

-- Mal

[Bake]

19. PERFECTAMUNDO!! +10000000000000000000000000000000

Bake

[krispos42]

20. ...

Must be why Obama is a communist...

[LynneSin]

21. Not to be fussy but they are looking pretty stupid TODAY

just saying!

[Kali]

25. yep

[Initech]

22. Boils it down to incredibly simple terms - love it!

[HuckleB]

23. This is getting a good deal of play on facebook, and many anti-gay family members and friends are...

... not happy. What I've noticed, when i see the discussions under the post, when friends have made it, is that the anti-gay crowd doesn't get far.

It's probably meaningless, but maybe not completely.

[Rob H.]

27. "One Man, One Woman for Life"?

Given how high divorce rates are in the red states (way higher than among the blue states), I wonder how many of the people in that top photo have been married before, and of those, how many have remarried. Down here in the Bible Belt, that's considered adultery in some faiths (the Southern Baptist Convention, for one).

Hmm....

[brooklynite]

31. Hmm, lets out some of Romney's ancestors...

[harmonicon]

28. This has been posted here before, but it really hits the nail on the head.

Little more than those pictures and that sentence are needed for the importance of being on the right side of history to hit home.

[CanonRay]

29. Look closely...it's the same damn people!

Just older and fatter.