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being against gay marriage doesn t make you a homophobe

Ben Carson Says Beg Agast Gay Marriage Don't Make You Homophobic

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BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

On Friday, Brandon Ambroso penned a thoughtful say the Atlantic ntendg that opposn to gay marriage don’t necsarily signify... * being against gay marriage doesn t make you a homophobe *

What to make of Cardal Timothy Dolan's claim that the Catholic Church has been unfairly ritured as anti-gay? (Stefano Rellandi/Rters)Do beg agast gay marriage make someone anti-gay?

The qutn rurfaced last week when Cardal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, claimed on Meet the Prs that the Catholic Church is unfairly “ritured” as anti-gay. The Huffgton Post’s Pl Rshenbh quickly wrote up a rponse, sayg that “The hard realy that Cardal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along wh every other church whether Orthodox, Prottant or Catholic has been horrifilly, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of s history. ”Then Rshenbh hled out a faiar argument: “Let's jt be very clear here —if you are agast marriage equaly you are anti-gay.

Y, OPPOSG GAY MARRIAGE MAK YOU A HOMOPHOBE

”As a gay man, I found myself disappoted wh this fn—that anyone wh any sort of moral rervatns about gay marriage is by fn anti-gay. If Rshenbh is right, then that means my parents are anti-gay, many of my relig iends (of all fahs) are anti-gay, the Pope is anti-gay, and—y, we’ll go here—first-century, Jewish theologian J is anti-gay.

BEN CARSON SAYS BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU HOMOPHOBIC

That’s spe the fact that while some relig people don’t support gay marriage a sacramental sense, many of them are favor of same-sex civil unns and full rights for the parti volved. To be sure, most gay people, myself clud, won’t be satisfied until our lovg, monogamo relatnships are graced wh the word “marriage.

” But ’s important to rell that many relig dividuals do support strong civil rights for the gay members of their muni. Remend ReadgWhat exactly do we mean when we say “anti-gay, ” or “homophobic”? Often when I try to unrstand where my nservative opponents are g om, my gay iends acce me of beg homophobic.

BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON’T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

It isn’t homophobic of me to try to unrstand why someone might be opposed to marriage equaly. Homophobic?

OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE EQUAT TO “ANTI-GAY”?

I wre says about beg gay, and then I publish them, and everyone go, “Oh yeah, he’s gay. ” I have no rervatns about my sexualy, so as far as the accatn of homophobia go: that gay ship has already sailed to Disneyland, wh a speedo-clad Tom Daley rved to the ’s “anti-gay” to qutn the arguments of marriage-equaly advot, and if the word “homophobic” is exhsted on me or on pole dissenters, then what should we ll someone who beats up gay people, or prefers not to hire them?

I would argue that an sential feature of the term “homophobia” mt clu personal anim or malice toward the gay muny.

Simply havg rervatns about gay marriage might be anti-gay marriage, but if the rervatns are articulated a rpectful way, I see no reason to dismiss the person holdg those rervatns as anti-gay people.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BEING AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE DOESN T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

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