# Prop 8 (CA) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-ca/471250 "2008-11-05T09:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 601
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-ca/471250/601 "2008-11-12T05:46:21Z")
No, we don’t owe magellan an apology. He vociferously cries he’s all for equal rights, but when pressed, resorts to his favorite and revealing analogies: > [@Gay marriage opponents, listen up: I've got a secret to tell you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/173): > > Uh, you may want to be careful with that argument. Yes, God made homosexuals and heterosexuals, not to mention blond hair, brown skin, and green eyes. But God also made necrophiliacs, pedophiles, and all manner of sexual “flavors”, including the guy who feels he must sit in a parked car wearing swim fins and a propeller hat and masturbate to women coming out of the gym. These things, too, are “natural”. So while homosexuality is “natural”, it is outside the norm. The degree to which it should be tolerated is definitely up to society. The fact hat the preference, or even, act, does no harm is significant, arguing that the degree of tolerance should be great. But to hold the position that it MUST be absolute is simply a leap. > > Take ephebophilia, the sexual interest in those in mid to late adolescence. It is undoubtedly “natural”. Some might even argue normal (the norm) to be attracted to the opposite sex as it is just coming into maturity. Just look at the modeling world; many high-fashion models epitomize this stage. (Remember Brooke Shields in those jeans ads?) Not long ago, women would be married at that stage. Yet, society looks at this and makes a judgment as to what it thinks is most beneficial to society. Not just for today, but for tomorrow, too. Gays are like necrophiliacs and pedophiles and we don’t give _them_ equal rights, now do we? To him, gays are a sexual “flavor,” that society has no obligation to tolerate. But then he’ll jump right back in with more “I fully support equal rights! Just don’t steal my word, and corrupt my children!” I’m convinced he clings to this one word issue because he can. It’s about the only bigoted thing he’s got left. If he could get a law passed saying blacks can’t call themselves democrats, he would. His reasoning would be the same. Only whites can be democrats. That’s the way it’s always been. Check your history books. Only whites were democrats. You can believe what you want, vote how you want, but “democrat” is only for whites. I think I’ll pass a law making it illegal for blacks to be democrats. I am not racist! I just want my children to grow up in a world where they know being a democrat is only for whites! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-ca/471250)._