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> There's a world of difference between opposing gay marriage and supporting a white supremacist terrorist organization.

Not if you are gay and married. And, wow. You then go on to articulate positions that have, in fact, been used against racial minorities and to support miscegenation laws. Just wow. And you're not seeing that?

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Here's a gay man, which I would think gives him some authority, sharing his opinion on the matter of same-sex marriage, and here you are telling him his nuanced views are apartheid-enabling. These kinds of exaggerated reactions, false accusations and radical rhetoric is why I do not want to be associated with the self-proclaimed "progressives". To put it in your own terms: your type of demonizing slander has been used to support [insert horrible event].

Your position, and that of the OP, rests on religion having a privileged place: It excuses bigotry. That's not nuanced. That's wrong, and the comparison to miscegenation laws, and the various excuses for those laws, is apt. You can't fit a dime between support of miscegenation laws and support for repeal of gay marriage.

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