AggregateDemand and CountryClassSF are trolls. They shouldn't be engaged on this issue because they're just going to spout nonsense.
I am really sick of this nonsense of calling people who disagree with you trolls and/or putting them on ignore. Not everyone is a so-called "progressive" who wants to shove their viewpoint on gay marriage down everyone's throat, regardless of legitimate religious objections.
I have not noticed any gun pointing myself by SSM proponents. Rather it has all been ballot box and court action, where SSM proponents having a very high batting average. Yes, I know, you don't really believe your own hyperbole, but I digress. I also haven't noticed the word "Hitler" bandied about much either, and you know the Hitler rule - you invoke his name inappropriately, and you automatically lose the argument out of the box.
A CEO was forced out of his job for the "crime" of engaging in the political process by donating to the campaign for California's Proposition 8. Bakers are being forced to bake cakes with messages in support of something they vehemently disagree with. Some "progressives" label anyone who has legitimate religious objections to gay marriage as "bigots" and "haters", instead of engaging in debate, and try to ruin opponents' lives and job prospects.
If you don't see that as gun pointing by SSM proponents, I don't know what to tell you. If you dare disagree with SSM, you are evil incarnate to "progressives".
Translation (1964):
Insert Jim Crow, slavery, child labor, women's rights, religious freedoms, etc. into the blank. It's all the same terrible, bigoted, recycled, and archaic argument.
