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I’m Gay, Therefore I Am

by John Cole|  July 27, 200411:22 pm| 3 Comments

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There are arguments, good and bad, on both sides of the issue of gay marriage. There are reasons people take the positions they take, good and bad, on both sides of the issue of gay marriage. This, however, is just bile:

Remember when National Review’s in-house bigot, John Derbyshire, got all excited about a Scottish hotelier throwing a gay couple out of his bed and breakfast because they wanted to sleep in a double bed? The man is now running for the Scottish parliament on an anti-homosexual agenda. Not that he’s homophobic, of course. No one is, any more, are they? Here’s the money quote: “I am not homophobic. What they need is medical treatment because there’s something medically wrong with them. They need psychiatric treatment to get them out of it.” Why doesn’t Karl Rove offer the guy a job?

Clearly in the realm of those whose sexuality is the core essence of their being, any opposition to legalized gay marriage is nothing more than the twisted and demented homophobia of a Scottish bigot.

Andy, you petulant child. I am not virulently opposed to gay marriage- I think civil unions is the way to go, but John Hawkins is right. Sullivan is no longer making arguments, but rather spewing ad hominems faster than I can keep up.

I remember Andrew making quite a stink over Julian Bond’s Taliban comments. Apparently vicisous slandering of the sort is ok in Andy’s book as long as it is in pursuit of homosexual marriage.

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  1. 1.

    Mason

    July 28, 2004 at 12:09 am

    I certainly don’t understand why so many people read him, much less donate money. He’s gotta have the most expensive bandwidth on the planet, lemme tell you. I have an unmetered 20mbps pipe on one of my servers for $800/month, which is orders of magnitude more than “contribute” Andy needs.

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    platosearwax

    July 28, 2004 at 2:06 am

    Andy has some screws loose. And Derbyshire is a pretty vile human being, and not just for this quote but for his whole body of work.

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    Al Maviva

    July 28, 2004 at 7:30 am

    Right on, Plato. Derbyshire’s biogoraphies of famous mathematicians – what a putrid pile of racist trash they are, what with the constant insistence on a western-imposed racist imperialist number system. Please repeat after me: Derbyshire racist anti-gay, make your integers go away. Derbyshire, monger of sexist fear – we don’t need your calculus here.

    Not to mention his odious writing about growing up as a member of the English working class, or his journey from being a commie, to becoming a conservative; or his duscussions about working as a programmer in the Wall Street boiler room. Talk about your hateful spew…

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