Reply #12: I was discussing gay marriage issue with a couple of coworkers [View All]

[hollowdweller]

and I was amazed how homophobic they were. Both have degrees, one used to teach college. We work with lots of gay people and they don't hate them, but they were totally against gay marriage, or even civil unions. I tried to explain that if the gov't sanctions marriage then since gay people are citizens they should not be shut out of those rights. If the gov't doesn't want to recognize gay marriage they oughta get out of recognizing ANY marriage. They just didn't want it and really couldn't explain why except it was clear they didn't like gay people that much and didn't want to give them any rights. This was eye opening for me, cause I had always thought they were open minded and one is even a Dem who voted for Kerry on economic reasons and due to the war.