I Don't Hate Gays

I really shouldn't have to say that but I figure it's better safe than sorry.  Chik-Fil-A in the US is finding out the hard way that having an opinion that goes against the accepted wisdom of the establishment left can be dangerous.  I wonder how this guy is going to survive the onslaught now that he has come out to support Chik-Fil-A's COO, Dan Cathy's, right to state his anti-gay marriage opinion?  Will it matter that Steve Salbu is gay himself?

I am afraid.  Literally.  I am afraid that we will soon lose our most basic right; the right to freedom of speech and of conscience.  I am afraid because those on the left characterize opinions they do not like as "hate speech" and work so hard to legislate against opinions they do not like.  I may or may not agree with Dan Cathy regarding gay marriage but I certainly think Cathy's right to freedom of speech is much more important than anyone's "right"* to marry.

In fact, it is precisely because we tolerate unpopular ideas and allow people to express socially divergent ideas that gays have gained the rights that, I believe, they always should have had.  How ironic that those same people who took such good advantage of the bedrock of rights should now try to deny that to others.


*note: No one has a right to marry.  Millions of people are denied marriage because no one wants to to spend ten seconds with them, let alone marry them!  Further, marriage is a moral institution that sets rules and boundaries on couples through promises not to cheat, not to leave when the going gets rough, and so on.  What business is that of government's?  My personal morality is not something I need a bureaucrat to rubber stamp.


Do I think gays should be allowed to marry, not as a right, but as a matter of choice between two consenting adults?  Hell yeah!  But the government should not be "blessing" their marriage in my name, or anyone's, just as they should keep their nose out of my own marriage.