December 2008
16 posts
Quick rant.
In response to the recent Obama wank, but mostly in response to like 50 percent of our country, look. I keep hearing people say that we should respect people’s right to disagree with homosexuality and we should respect the portion of America that thinks gay rights are wrong. WHY? I don’t understand why I should respect anyone’s bigotry? I don’t think being anti-gay is a...
The Daily Show on Gay Marriage - Semantics →
Jon Stewart is the best at talking to politicians about this, I think. But I sit and listen to Huckabee try and tell me that we’d be changing a fundamental definition of marriage by allowing gay marriage, and just keeping stuck on that and telling me how definitions matter.
Look. I am a trained linguist (specifically a sociolinguist). DEFINITIONS DO NOT MATTER. Definitions are human...
Truth. →