Well, I'm not going to go all no-true-Scotsman on anyone, and I'm sure there is a certain admixture of what Tom calls Ewww Teh Icky Gay in there for some of them. But if that were all, then all they would have to do is pretend that gay people didn't exist. Leave them alone. Not speak their names.
The fact that they are interfering in the lives of other people, working quite hard to do so when apart from their religious reasons they would have no cause even to acknowledge their existence, bespeaks something separate and distinct from visceral disgust or moral contempt. I suppose you could say, from their standpoint, that they hope to bring about a change...
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Date: 2008-12-22 10:39 am (UTC)The fact that they are interfering in the lives of other people, working quite hard to do so when apart from their religious reasons they would have no cause even to acknowledge their existence, bespeaks something separate and distinct from visceral disgust or moral contempt. I suppose you could say, from their standpoint, that they hope to bring about a change...