Gaming King said:
LegendaryGamer0 said:
I vote...
for Sakura.
She is the best choice.
[sub]Damn, sleepy... need... rest...[/sub]
FUCK YEA.
ALSO, topic creator, a candidate's religion or lack thereof shouldn't be a factor, really. It's not relevant to politics as much as you might think. Also, most Americans oppose "gay marriage," so you calling that "extreme" is flat-out wrong. Obama doesn't support that, even.
Au contraire, I'd be willing to bet that most of us do support it. Or would support it if they weren't influenced by yet another tired old "think of the children" argument. I had a friend who once believed that allowing gay marriage would somehow corrupt children because they may have to be taught about it in schools as a result. Firstly, no they wouldn't. They don't teach us about straight marriage in school, so why would they teach us about gay marriage? Secondly, let's pretend for a second that they would teach gay marriage in schools. In this case, so what? The little brats can handle it. They're not THAT stupid.
Anyway, I explained both of these points to my friend, and he switched his position. You see, I think that a lot of the people who are against gay marriage, aren't REALLY against gay marriage, but just afraid of how it will affect children. Because people are stupid about children. You wave a kid around and people will believe anything you have to say. As long as it's "FOR THA KEEDZ!" You don't even have to explain your argument. Literally just pick up a kid, wave him around like a flag, and say "Look, a kid!", and people will assume your position is valid, no matter what your position is.
In other words, being against gay rights totally IS an extremist point of view. The only reason it has such a high following is likely because somebody waved a kid around at some point and said "think of the children." At least, that's what I think happened.