Thu Nov 13 07:58:33 Will it Really Hurt Children...: To know that there are people who vote against gay marriage, people hate those people, and that those people are forced to live second-class citizen lives by being blacklisted and outcasted?
Which right is more sacrosact in America, the right to free expression and peaceable assembly, or the right to have government sanctify a particular relationship with the word 'family' or 'marriage.' If one is in favor of ever more sexual and commercial liberalization at the cost of increasing political repression then I suppose it would be the latter. Bring on the gladators and carnivals filled with breadcarts and public executions! We have no fear of becoming Orwell's 1984; while instead, the intoxication of pleasure has lulled us into Huxley's Brave New World.
The key to the success of a democracy: Restraint.
It's a good thing to know that my medical knowledge will be too valuble for me to be forced to give up my line of work because of my religion or political opinions. Perhaps I'll have to give up on Academia though.
