Why are gay rights such a big issue to people, but NDAA, CISPA, Fast and Furious, MONSANTO ETC isn’t?
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I don’t understand how certain people defend Obama vehemently, blindly, without QUESTION, despite the corruption running rampant in his office. This is not the sign of an intelligent person! Intelligent people trust, but verify. They QUESTION.
Monsanto pesticides that are banned in MANY other Countries (but not the USA!) are KILLING the bee population. We’re talking extinction. It’ll cause massive starvation! No bees, no crops!
CISPA will allow them to spy on anything you type on the internet. ANYTHING!
NDAA can make you disappear.
Yet we have people focused on gay people getting married as more important than all of this. WOW!
Desire, Monsanto is going to cause mass starvation. IT’s killing all the bees. This is about PROFIT not fixing world hunger.
Andy, I’m pro gay marriage. I just think it’s smokes and mirrors as well. I’m far more concerned with mass starvation and have no feelings on gays one way or the other. It’s just not important to me. Their happiness is important, yes, but I feel the catastrophe is far worse.
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11 Responses to Why are gay rights such a big issue to people, but NDAA, CISPA, Fast and Furious, MONSANTO ETC isn’t?
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Because Gay Rights are a real issue.
AZ Bacon Product
October 18, 2013 at 10:55 am
Yeah! How dare people have different priorities than you?
It just shows how the country is going down the toilet.
Lloyd
October 18, 2013 at 11:47 am
You want to fling mud on Obama and you can’t because he tried as well as any one to keep on the straight and narrow. This is why you are frustrated.
Gasy
October 18, 2013 at 12:38 pm
I could give a chit about gay rights………they can shove it
Nuckinfuts®
October 18, 2013 at 1:33 pm
We get National Defense Authorization Acts pretty often. It is called the military Budget.
but just this most recent one had some provisions that took away our freedoms.
Look, if congress would never ever pass an unconstitutional law, then we would not need a supreme court, would we?
When someone gets caught up in it, they can fight it.
Wiley Begonay
October 18, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Fast and Furious prompted introduction of law for background checks. That was blocked. The law would have stopped people from reselling guns to Mexican drug cartels.
Everything else on your list was voted on in congress and the senate and passed. This is the beauty of a democracy, sometimes you don’t get what you want.
Caveat emptor
October 18, 2013 at 2:21 pm
I am more interested in the rights of Children to be able to live in a safe home and not be hungry. Screw gay rights. Their life is what they made it but the children did not ask to be born and abused.
Desire
October 18, 2013 at 3:03 pm
60% of the country doesn’t know what is going on, some not at all. 15% don’t care and the rest are the ones who are paying attention. These blind fools are somewhere in the 75% and they don’t want to deal with facts, just blindly defending Obama cause that’s what the other liberals are doing. If you were to ask most of these people for facts they would be clueless which is destroying this country.
Mercadies2000
October 18, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Because they are gay so that is all they care about. Just like far right christians vote soley on abortion.
If you are using QA as your sample though then you have to realize there are just a couple of gay marriage promoters here with many accounts that use them to report everyone that opposes them. Yahoo is located near San Fran so you can guess why they allow it.
Commibama
October 18, 2013 at 4:28 pm
beats me
it’s weird how libs hate religion and embrace government with the same fervor
natas
October 18, 2013 at 4:52 pm
I disagree with your politics, I think, but have a lot of sympathy with the point you raise.
Why is US political culture like this?
I think sexual orientation — whether you’re gay or straight — whether you support gay marriage or hate it — is an intensely PERSONAL issue.
Almost everybody takes a personal “position” on the question of gay sex versus no gay sex. In fact that’s what we do all the time, the instant we begin to date, not to mention the instant we become sexually active.
It’s also sometimes a “life and death” issue as well as an issue of personal despair or personal empowerment to many gay people, who for 1,600 years have taken a huge amount of grief in Western cultures for their sexual choices, and sometimes have been killed because of them.
So nearly ALL of us — gays and bisexuals and straights, tolerant people and homophobics, liberals & conservatives, Christians & atheists, and many others I’m leaving out — have a powerful emotional response to questions about sexual identity.
Most of us just don’t have the same emotional response to questions about Monsanto’s pesticides & the fate of the honey bees.
However, if the scientists are right, the potential destruction of bees and other pollinating insects — by making it far more costly for farmers to fertilize food crops, and possibly by making it impossible for many crops to be fertizlied at all — could cause a huge famine-related catastrophe for our civilization.
No bees > fewer or no fertilization of corn & wheat & alfalfa etc. > possible famine in the USA and the world.
The threat is as simple as that.
IOW the gay rights issue is intensely personal, for people on both sides of the question (I happen to support gay rights; hope you do also, although it sounds as if you don’t.)
But the question of honey bee decline is SOCIAL AND POLITICAL in the widest sense of the word. It could affect almost everyone, gay and straight. But our understandable focus on emotionally gripping questions about sex & sexual identity helps us all to ignore the honey bee’s fate.
Meanwhile, of course, companies like Monsanto may have a lot of money riding on propaganda that says the honey bee issue isn’t important.
That’s why we “strain out the gnat and swallow the camel” sometimes in our political debates, IMO.
— democratic socialist / supporter of gay rights / long time environmentalist
Andy F
October 18, 2013 at 5:10 pm