As much as the Daily Show can be obnoxious, this hits the nail on the head.

Conservatives are using the same tactics they bitched about Liberals for using in some ways less than a year ago. Only they're much louder and obnoxious.

How can you bitch about finger wagging when even now you're wagging your finger at homosexuals, environmentalists, pagans, and god only knows who else?

Same Church Lady, different gender.

It's fucking frustrating.

I am intolerant of the vast majority of viewpoints I have encountered "against" gay marriage, yes. This is not because social standards tell me to, or because some mangled interpretation of a Holy Book leads me to believe so. It's because I've been in so many arguments where the same illogic and mean spirited idioms have been blurted out again and again. Not only do I disagree with them, they fail LOGICALLY. That's not just my opinion. Of course it's absolutely possible there is a "Logical" argument against gay marriage, which is why I think it should still be open for debate. It's just so unlikely – and you're coming from a biased viewpoint. You're following both religious and social dogma. You love to throw around your theory that "Liberals" are the same, but you fail to back it. The cult like mentality amongst the posters here is highly evident – and partial evidence for this is that you're so quick to use this extremely stereotypical Conservative Christian reactionary mechanism.

The fact that you can support these supposed "Traditional values" and then call other people intolerant is unbelievable.

I may be "intolerant" of a single viewpoint, but that's okay. I'm sure a lot of people here wouldn't be tolerant of racism, or sexism. There's nothing wrong with not tolerating things that in of themselves set out to be intolerant. The whole point is that you're being intolerant for stupid reasons. Do you really think "Liberals" are advocating we tolerate absolutely everything?

Also, why would I have to read someone's mind? You're not individuals here. You're horrible stereotypes. It's just astounding, Doug's entries check all the boxes for "Right wing fundie loonie". I can't see him deviating in a single major issue. Yes, there are Liberals like that, but I'm not one of your American Liberals to begin with so please don't judge me by that standard. For example, while I'm not against abortion I'm not quite as "Pro Choice" as some people I know. I think as long as it's not scarring for the mother, adoption is a better option. I also think Nuclear Power is a greener solution. There are many notable issues on which I disagree with Liberals – but as for Doug, I don't see how he's anything but a drone. So no, I don't need to read his mind.

This isn't an issue of intolerance. People like you make it so it's impossible to call anyone a "bigot" nowadays. As much as you hate Political Correctness(according to your stereotype), you are the ultimate force of it.

Yes, if you are against Gay Marriage, on law of averages, you probably are a bigot. Doug is a bigot, and if you agree with him you're making an unfair judgement on the entire way in which one type of person loves another type of person, and then call someone else intolerant for calling you out on it. And that's a bad thing.

You don't "disagree" with being gay any more than you disagree with red hair. Homosexuality occurs in nature, this much isn't up for debate. Now if you have particular issues with "the gay lifestyle", then I'd actually agree with you on some counts, as opposed to most liberals – I think they often stereotype themselves just like you do. But you're not coming to that viewpoint through honest reasoning, and you're painting any homosexual with a voice with the same brush.

Thank you for sharing that on a public forum. It's good that other people can see your intolerance and arrogance.

Equal recognition is an important part of

Civil Union is socially inferior to marriage. If there was a "homosexual" equivalent of marraige then maybe it wouldn't be such an issue(but it'd be silly – not to mention it already gets coined as "Gay Marriage" as opposed to "Marriage for Gays"). You cannot deny this much at least. Why is it that straight couples get to be recognised as "married" and not same sex ones? That's what it boils down to. Why does one religion, or one set of traditions rise above all others?

Gay marriage is basically the same thing as straight marraige. That's why "they" want to drive the point home – only the gender is different.

I could argue it isn't even homophobia, but sexism. Why is a man allowed marry a woman, but not another woman? Actually it IS sexism since a big part of "sexism" is enforcing gender roles.

So why do you hate the idea of gay marriage then? I can't imagine it being for intellectual reasons.