New York Times Discovers The Lie Behind “Anti-Gay”
Declaring people who don’t think gay marriage is good policy as “anti-gay” was always an obvious slander. The New York Times has now discovered that the people against gay marriage aren’t actually “anti-gay” after all:
When an openly gay woman won the mayor’s race here this month, it was the latest in a string of victories by gay candidates across the country, a trend that seems to contradict the bans on same-sex marriage that have been passed in most states in recent years.
Take Texas, by many measures one of the most conservative states in the nation. In 2005, it enacted a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage; the voters passed the referendum by a ratio of three to one.
Yet in the last decade, an openly gay woman has twice won election as the sheriff in Dallas County, and another openly gay woman was elected district attorney in Travis County, which includes the city of Austin. Gay candidates have also won city council seats in Austin, Fort Worth and Houston.
I guess when you’re the leading leftwing rag, you have to at least pretend to be surprised when your slanderous accusations turn out to be false. Conservatives who oppose gay marriage (I don’t care who gets married, personally; I just wish goverment were not involved in the matter at all) were never bigots merely because they took that policy stance. Anyone who said otherwise was simply trying to shut down debate.
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Fascinating story. I, too, don't care if someone is gay in terms of employment or elected office. But I'm against gay marriage. The left, thought, has taken the position that anyone to objects to any aspect of the radical gay agenda is a hatemonger. This needs to change.