# Gay marriage opponents, listen up: I've got a secret to tell you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 6, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496 "2008-11-06T19:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/861 "2008-12-04T03:20:30Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> Still not a big enough mark against him to make me vote for Palin

\<G\> Yeah, I couldn’t vote for her misogyny either!

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/862 "2008-12-04T03:29:11Z")

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> [@curlcoat](#):
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> There is a big difference between the HSUS and your local humane society. In a nutshell, the HSUS is an arm of PETA.

I don’t think I’d care if Obama had a PETA sticker on his bumper. I’m far more concerned with the hold organized religion may have on him.

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**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/863 "2008-12-04T06:08:26Z")

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> [@curlcoat](#):
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> So even in early America there was no real freedom of, or from, religion? Way to waste a long trip across the Atlantic…

Well, I guess they weren’t actually beheading people for being the wrong religion, so it was a little baby step (across a big ocean) in the right direction. Course, I don’t think they were burning witches in England at that time, so maybe they were in fact equally bad.

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/864 "2008-12-04T06:30:51Z")

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If memory serves, they didn’t burn witches in Colonial America.

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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/865 "2008-12-04T06:38:31Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> If memory serves, they didn’t burn witches in Colonial America.

Hanged, mostly. Burning was more a continental thing, though a few were burned in England ( but again, mostly hanged ).

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