Sorry, sweetheart, this isn't 2010 anymore.
Yeah, that's true, The Homosexual Lobby had SIGNIFICANTLY MORE REPRESENTATION IN GOVERNMENT IN 2010.
That's bullshit. Republican in the house and senate have improved their numbers and yet gay marriage has increased in approval. But, if it makes you feel good to say it...it's still wrong.
Keyes still denies that the public supports gay marriage. Or that there has been any significant change in public attitudes toward gay marriage since 2010.
You can't fix stupid.
I still don't understand their fascination with the subject.
If they were simply upset with having to bake gay cakes and left it at that, I could understand the feeling. I wouldn't agree with them but at least it involves a third party.
Most of it is rooted in a general rejection of their religious tenets as having any objective value. A couple of generations ago judges could literally cite God's will as the reason and justification of their ruling. Look at judge Leon Bazille's ruling in his conviction of Richard and Mildred Loving:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
Leon Bazille
This was perfectly legit back in the day. A judge spewing this blatantly subjective jiggery pokery in a ruling today would likely be disbarred. Society today is far more critical of generic 'Appeal to Authority' fallacies. "God said so'' just doesn't cut it. Not because folks don't believe in God. But because they don't believe the guy who is claiming to speak for Him.
The net result is a dramatic reduction of religious authority. Even as a mode of thinking, religion has lost ground and science has gained it. We laugh as the Kansas school boards try to fit creationism into science text books. We look back at the Scopes monkey trial and shake our heads in beweliderment that anyone could be that ******* stupid. Yet in their day, religious reasoning and appeals to authority were accepted as perfectly valid.
With this, we see a synergy of deep seeded homophobia fueling a general animosity toward gays. And reactionary belligerence to not having their religious tenets taken seriously as the basis of law or common sense any more. It comes together to create an almost obsessive focus on gay marriage. Many have invested in this emotionally. And those emotions are fueled by a low, ugly animus toward gays.
Not in every case. I've met the occasional constitutionalist who has a genuine federal v state beef. And I have met some religious folks who frame the issue more with their relationship with god. But I'd say most do.
I can show you some really choice posts from Keyes when he talks about how if gays don't sit down and shut the **** up they're going to be subject to violence that will make 'a hate crime look like christmas dinner'. Or talking about how gays will be slaughtered if they don't back down.
The hate is real. The desire to hurt people is real. Thankfully, the chickenshit is stronger. As they don't want to bleed.