HUGE Day for gay rights in the States - DOMA declaired Unconstutional - Prop 8 gone!

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Sensei said:

Haha good news, sucks for the haters and some religious zealots, though.

I still wonder why people have so much trouble with this. Perhaps I've grown in a really liberal family? None of my business who my friends fuck with. I have straight and gay friends and I like to think everyone can have the same rights.

That is and excellent question and one I wonder about my self.  The best answer I can come up with usually refers to something about a struggle within themselves, or hating it in someone else.

Examples:

Famous anti-gay Anita Bryan's husband was gay.  She hated that he was gay and throught was ruining her family.  Said she would rather have her kids dead than be gay.

Michael Knight - author of a gay marriage ban called 'The Knight Initiative' had a gay son who told him 'Dad, I am going to get married someday.'  Dad through a fit, and sponsored legislation to ban his son from getting married.

Dr. Laura - used to support gay people and couples, until people started teasing her that her 9 year old son who loves to play chess and collect antiques looked like a future homosexual.

I find it usually stems from something painful and personal.