Candidate match game

[beans and weenies]

I just love the "Tolerant Ones"... who are always intolerant.

Me too.   

[Dolfan]

Here's what you folks have me wondering...

Why do you consider the word "bigot" name-calling but "intolerant" not name-calling.  They appear to mean the same thing to me.  Would it have more appropriate for me to have said "Hal, your intolerance is not something that many of us agree with"? 

I know Hal would enjoy a withdrawal of the word "bigot" but he has said enough to earn that label.  Trouble is people see that as a negative word & the last thing they want to do is admit that they may have bigoted views.

Amy, it is clear that you take a stand for tolerance as most(?) of you do but i don't even consider this a "tolerance" issue.  I see it as a fact that it is none of my business what anyone's sexual preference or lifestyle is nor do I care.  But I will not suck up to anyone who I vehemently disagree with.  These are simply civil rights and the courts will all eventually come to see that as clear as women's rights & colored people's rights.  I will however, defend their right to disagree & voice it.

What is a tolerance issue is when you've paid $10 for a seat in a simulcast area & a handful of free loaders stand in your way & keep you from seeing the race.  I can either spend my night complaining or "tolerate" it! 

[pezz97]

Gay marriage I don't find disturbing at all.  What I find disturbing are people that lust and make comments about what they would like to do to women that are young enough to be their grandchildren.

[AmyHollar]

I see the difference!

I'm pretty sure I'm just "tolerating" St Calvin right now. 

[Dolfan]

Washington becomes the 7th state to legalize & recognize same sex marriages.
 
Another small victory for freedom & civil rights.

[careless hal]

My point of view:
1. I don't care what any two people do in the privacy of their bedroom or their kitchen table.
2. Marriage is between a man and a woman.
3.  If gays want to choose "life partners" and live together, fine.  Civil unions?  Maybe.

It is very clear that radical gay groups have an agenda.  If you do not buy into every point, you are labeled a bigot, or worse.  Some who have been labeled a bigot in recent days: Mitt Romney, Santorum, Cardinal George(Arch-bigot).  The list could go on and on.  I am sure that the great majority of Republicans would qualify for their"bigot" label.  Most Catholics would also qualify..
These linguistic terrorists may even resort to violence if they don't get their way. We have seen a little of that.  We can only hope their assaults are limited to the verbal kind.
As a person who has always treated gays as I would anyone else, of course, I don't like the "bigot" label.  Heck, I've even had gay couples over to my house for parties.  If only they knew I was an anti-gay bigot, they wouldn't have come.
 Because you are"intolerant" of someone's point of view on a subject does NOT make you a "bigot"
There are a lot of point of views I can't tolerate.  Does this mean I "hate" the people who hold them?  Of course not. 
As for Jeremy's comments, I apoliogize for using vulgar language.  I never was profane.
I am very confused by your statement that you are in favor of gay marriage, but then go on to indicate that you would not be in favor of any May- December relationship.   How dare that 75 year old gay guy lust after a 25 year old gay guy.  Or, are you only disgusted if a 75 year old man lusts after a 22 year old woman?   You must have threw up when Tony Randall, at age 75, had his first of two children with a 25 year old woman. 

[Jeremy]

I've read comments about what guys on this board would have loved to do to Miley Cyrus before she turned 18 as well as that golfer.  (What I was disgusted by and find more disturbing than the thought of gays marrying) Some members of this board that made comments could have grandchildren that age. 

That has nothing to do with a 75 year old marrying a 25 year old.  I also don't recall saying they shouldn't be allowed to get married, because its not my business or care if they do or not.

I wouldn't call myself a proponent of gay marriage, but a proponent of less laws where people try to get control over others.  I feel the same way about this as I did the smoking ban.  I don't smoke but don't want to take the right of business owners to establish rules on smoking in their business.  Just like I don't want to take the rights away from gays to get married.

[Just Saying]

To Quote Rosanne Rosanna Danna: "It's always somethin'"

[Dolfan]

I wouldn't call myself a proponent of gay marriage, but a proponent of less laws where people try to get control over others.  I feel the same way about this as I did the smoking ban. 

I completely accept that view.  I feel as you do about the smoking ban as well. 

When it comes to alcohol I feel totally different because I know only too many people who have been affected by drunk drivers.  Want to get wasted on drugs & alcohol?  Just do it at home where you can't kill anyone else.

[Jeremy]

To Quote Rosanne Rosanna Danna: "It's always somethin'"

Funny how you never comment when someone you agree with keeps a thread going, but when someone responds them them there you go again, and add nothing to the conversation.

[AmyHollar]

I do that all the time. 

[Just Saying]

Funny how you never comment when someone you agree with keeps a thread going, but when someone responds them them there you go again, and add nothing to the conversation.

If I add nothing to the conversation, why would you bother to respond? Seems kinda silly.

[Jeremy]

If I add nothing to the conversation, why would you bother to respond? Seems kinda silly.

Just to call you out on it.

[AmyHollar]

SO anyway......gay marriage......yay or nay?

[Jeremy]

SO anyway......gay marriage......yay or nay?

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I don't see why not.