Reply #444: it is very silly [View All]

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politicians wear their HETEROSEXUALITY like a badge of honor...it's blatant and obvious...which is the point of this thread. a closted homophobe who cowers behind heterosexual priviledge is doing so FOR A REASON...and we all should be able to figure out what that reason is. some prefer to ponder the possible PERSONAL motives of such an individual, but clearly, there's the big, fat, pink elephant of the POLITICAL motives for doing so: to get elected, to court the favor and the money of the right, and to advance an acceptable type of bigotry.
some of our liberal friends seem to suggest that "tolerance" for this accpetable type of bigotry is somehow our "duty," to uphold the ethics of liberalism. however, some are failing to grasp: liberalism is NOT about "tolerating" bigotry or bigots. gays and lesbians are no more "obligated" to "tolerate" the views of homophobes than are people of color "obligated" to "tolerate" the views of racists. some views are INTOLERABLE...no matter what holy tomes, churches, and traditions dictate. even some "liberals" choose to "accept" anti-gay bigotry as "the norm," or at the very least, minimize it to "a difference of opinion"...i see this as a much larger problem than the ethics of outing.