Anti Gay Marriage Arguments - Why Do They Sound So Familiar?
Have you ever been listening to the ramblings of a lunatic and thought to yourself, "This just sounds too familiar?"
Maggie Gallagher and other anti-equality figureheads have said a lot of interesting (and by interesting, I mean profoundly moronic) things with regards to the LGBT rights movement. But every time I hear one of them prattle on about how equality for gay people is a horrifying threat to the world as we know it, I can't help but wonder why I feel as though I’ve heard it all before.
And then I realize: I have heard it all before, coming from my US History teachers. George Wallace – if you ask pretty much anyone other than him - was racist. In fact, Wallace became a symbol of racism back in 1963 when, as governor of Alabama, he stood in front of a University of Alabama doorway and literally tried to block the black students from entering the school.
