Oh, thats one of the things you tards are going to learn about me if i stick around in this hellhole; im soooooo unimpressed by western democracy. I actually think most people in non democratic states are happier than we are, despite their inability to vote on how comfortable they are with fags kissing or which pumpkinhead in a suit is going to pretend to represent them.

Blackmilk, the aspie geico caveman is my arch nemesis on this issue. He wanks himself to jpegs of the bill of rights.

I kind of wish I'd posted this last night, but:

You know, I actually find myself agreeing with this, in essence. "OK everybody, let's put it to the tried and tested democratic process and determine if we should "gift" the LGBTQ community with a basic human right that every other adult is entitled to without reservation". There's something a bit patronising surrounding it. Sometimes I wish there was a modern day equivalent of the Weather Underground where they had "jailbreaks" involving the liberation of high school students from classrooms as they handed out copies of their manifesto.

If you think about it, while same sex marriage should unreservedly be an option for all, on the other hand, couldn't "marriage" also be viewed as a dilution of the very basic tenets of ***** theory - the idea of "marriage" being a heteronormative construct? Similarly, the Arab Spring could be viewed as a grotesque imposition of latter day pretensions of Western imperialism i.e. "democracy=good/all other options = bad".

Speaking of anti-gay sentiment in the Arab world....while Iraq was never a gay mecca under Saddam Hussein, being ***** was tolerated to a degree if it wasn't "in your face". Since Saddam was deposed by the West, Amnesty International have produced statistics citing an exponential increase in government sanctioned torture and killing of gays by death squads. Yet another reason to be "thankful" for Western intervention...

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I think some things are too important to leave to democracy. It's not a case of assuming that the public will do the right thing; you have to look at the issue and say, what if they don't? If 90% of people voted in favour of a racist law, that would not make racism moral or just.

There was an interesting article posted on the BBC Website following Obama's statement about gay marriage, from a conservative perspective. It was interesting as much for what it didn't say as for what it did.

BBC News - Viewpoint: Blame liberal media for same-sex marriage

That video is ****ing amazing. It's like performance art or something.

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