re: Andrew Sullivan: "We're no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us."

In today's slate under the headline "If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO":

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But this is different. Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others.

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Imagine if it read like this:

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But this is different. Opposing the Right To life in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others.

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Liberals are TOTALLY cool with reactionary hardline Cultural Orthodoxy that swerves into occasional Cultural Fascism. They'll defend it to the end with nary a worry about how this plays out long term for societies that devolve to a Correct Thought and Correct Speech paradigm.