Reply #11: While I agree there's plenty of discrimination against obese people [View All]

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No presidential candidate could stand and state that he wants to ban marriage between obese people and still have anything resembling support. No candidate could equate obesity with pedophilia or bestiality the way several candidates have equated homosexuality with those acts and still win presidential primaries. Roughly 63% of Americans are obese and they'd crucify any candidate who tried anything so outrageous.


Presidential candidates have heartily endorsed legislation denying LGBT people their rights and/or promised to thwart pending legislation that would give us equal rights. They equate being LGBT with pedophilia, bestiality, murder and other such things. They have also constantly made statements insinuating that Christianity (and religion in general) is superior to everything else. Take Mitt Romney's "Religion requires freedom, freedom requires religion". The hidden message there is that if you aren't Christian, and if you're non-religious in particular, you're bad and don't count.


No presidential candidate could bash obese people so severely and still garner support. With LGBTs and the non-Christians/non-religious it's not only acceptable, it's pretty much expected.