> Being against gay marriage makes you a homophobe as much as being against minors voting makes you a pedophobe. - nec4b
Except it 100% does not and your statement makes absolutely no sense. One is a right you taking away from a group of people you don't agree with and the other doesn't even follow. What? Being against letting minors vote somehow makes you /not/ want to have sex with children? What is that even suppose to mean other than to be an age-old dog-whistle trying to tie homosexuality to pedophilia?
Firstly pedophobe is somebody who dislikes children not some one who wants to have sex with them (pedophile). You are the one doing the dog whistle thing.
The point is that marriage as well as voting right is not something you can take away as it exists only as a social construct. The state decides who is entitled to a right to get married as well as at what age somebody gets to vote. The society could decide tomorrow that it doesn't care about marriage and that no special rights should be granted to married people straight or gay. And that doesn't make the people voting for it any kind of -phobes.
I misunderstood "pedophobe" as the first google result says it's the opposite of a "pedophile" but it's from Urban Dictionary and I didn't read on to find other uses of the word. That said your response confuses me greatly, how am I dog whistling?
> The point is that marriage as well as voting right is not something you can take away as it exists only as a social construct.
There are a number of groups of people who have felt first-hand that this is simply not true. Both marriage and voting rights have been held back from or taken away from groups of people multiple times.
Now, with the correct understanding of the word "pedophobe" your original statement still doesn't track. You want to equate not allowing gays to marry with not allow <18 year olds to vote as if they are the same concept, they are not. One is taking away a right afforded to their equal counterparts and one is based on not reaching adulthood yet and not being mature enough to make that decision. I sure hope you aren't insinuating that similarly gays are somehow not up to the task of marriage or not mature enough to be trusted with marriage?
You are yet again trying to twist my words into meaning that somehow gay people are inferior. Please stop. It's like you are fixated on finding ulterior meaning where there is none.
Marriage is a social construct as are hundreds of other things we have in a society and as such they are open for discussion. For example, do you support incestual marriage? Do you think people against it are siblings haters?
