# What motivates people to vote other people's rights away **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261 "2009-11-04T05:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 583
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261/583 "2009-11-10T22:07:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Sure, you can make that generalization about gays. Of course, it’s trivially easy to point to a gay person who is none of those things, thus disproving the universality of the stereotype. > > By that same token, it should also be trivially easy to point to an example of opposition to SSM that is not, ultimately, rooted in some degree of antipathy towards homosexuals. I have to say, after spending several years debating the issue, I haven’t yet seen such an example. I am, as always, open to correction on this point - but you would, of course, actually have to engage in this debate to do so. Of course, it would be equally easy to point to an opponent of SSM who demonstrated none of the stereotypes associated with homophobes. And the zealots in both camps ignore the evidence and insist that the stereotype is the standard. It’s clear what camp the MB is in… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261)._