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Originally Posted by Corkobo
OK, I can see where you're coming from and do not question your ethics.
But OSC did not in fact do anything bad (that I know of).
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Other than
advocating treason. Emphasis added:
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Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.
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But why not consider that he did not grow up in this day and age? If (and this is pure speculation) he was brought up in a religious family with conservative views and the community in which the family lived was the same would you expect him to be different?
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My father is older than OSC, and he manages to understand that there's no ethical reason to deny gay people the same rights that straight people have.
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I am not condemning you (or indeed anybody) for your boycott but I am saying that the court of public opinion is often both misinformed and too quick to condemn without either knowing all the facts or indeed fully pondering the known facts.
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Saying, "maybe people are misunderstanding the situation" when you yourself are unwilling to examine the evidence is disingenuous at best.