re: #300 iossarian

To be fair, this is an interesting example, and one where I suppose you could withhold the homophobia label (though I would note that it doesn’t apply to any of the GOP presidential candidates, at least as far as we know…)

I do think that advocating for the denial of a certain right for a group of people of which you are a member is a bit odd, especially when there are plenty of members of the group who seem to want that right quite badly.

I’m sure there are quite a number of closeted gays who speak to deny those rights to cover their own homosexuality and possibly as an expression of self-hatred/disgust as a result of lifetimes of being told what evil abominations they are. We have seen it with some frequency in the Republican party. This is homophobia writ large… and tragic.

For those gays who are open, I have never seen any who say that they are actively against full marriage rights, though there are certainly some for whom it is not a driving issue.