First off, I find it disturbing that you're meant to be an "individualist" yet you have such a low tolerance for "freaks". Maybe if you knew some freaks instead of writing them off, you'd get somewhere in your arguments.

>. Because the issue isn’t about complaining that an untraditional group can’t get married.

"Untraditional group", oh wow. Yeah, because social definitions never change and traditions rule everything. How would you like if we inhereted the ancient greek rule of man/boy relationships? Fundies seem to think "Traditional" starts with christianity.

But yeah, if you're against "freaks" and you're against homosexuals it's pretty hard to call you individualist. Rather I'd say you're focusing on a smaller subset of things you believe make you an individual and are probably scared of having little or none. Nearly all your blog posts read 100% generic to what I've seen on various political messageboards. If it weren't for your art and writing(which is becoming increasingly dire, honestly) I'd be hard pushed to find anything that seperates you.

Whereas with these "freaks", it's easy to label them all as the same especially if they identify as part of a subculture. But you'll find a wider overall set of interests. I know people who are into all kinds of crazy things from folk-punk to vintage synthesisers to avante garde drama, often in the same person. Usually republican/con types pick one or two fairly mainstream "quirks" they cling to. This is a popular foreign view of america, predictably eccentric.

You are not an individualist. At some point you probably were before the Fundie virus took over completely, and what you're experiencing now is a throwback.

Having lower taxes will not make you more of an individual. Some of the most individual people I've met have been from Sweden, which to you would be socialist hell.

My second problem is how selective you are with these things… there are just as many nuts with Obama demonising posters, etc. and he's only just in office! Also, the level of aggressiveness doesn't prove an argument, but it doesn't disprove it either. If a particular group of people are riled up, it's probably because someone riled them up. You just can't use that as a valid metric.