re: #254 iceweasel

We are steadily moving towards an acceptance of gay marriage. Gay sex has been decriminalized. .

IMO, part of the reason that the rhetoric about same-sex marriage can get so overheated on the gay side is that a lot of activists tend to approach the issue as if it were the same problem as trying to decriminalize sodomy. For that matter, in the older ranks of gay activists, there are still plenty of people who cut their political teeth protesting against police harassment of gay bars.

They are, in short, still mentally stuck in the mode of “fighting for our right to be left alone by the gummint,” which simply isn’t applicable to the current marriage debate.