Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
Some facts about the issue:
- The most divisive issue in the country, with large and well organized pro- and anti-camps.
- "I'm personally opposed to it but wouldn't deny someone else their right" as a popular mainstream sentiment regarding the issue.
- Both sides with substantial numbers skeptical of the other side's sincerity.
- The extent of human rights and the relative value between two people being a fundamental question in the issue.
- The pro- side protected by nothing less than Supreme Court ruling.
- Entire (mutually hostile) sects of religion created to defend either side of the issue.
- Christians with a notoriously key role in the anti- camp.
- The philosophy of the pro- side entrenched firmly in libertarianism and the right to do as one pleases.
- The anti- side notorious for committing petty crimes, notably trespassing and theft of legally recognized property, to oppose the pro- side.
- People murdered on both sides for criticism of the other.
- Many arguments for either side of the issue based on the supposed good of the people in question.
- Both sides' perception of the the other's attitude towards the people most directly affected by the issue as misguided, if not twisted.