Whatever justification you suggest for support of a hateful action, it is still hateful. You can claim a Biblical justification, or an ideological one, or a political one. When people supported slavery, or anti-miscegenation laws, or the criminalization of homosexual behavior, or the Nuremberg laws, they did just that. Yet these stances were still hateful and bigoted.

You cannot say you want to deprive a class of people of their civil liberties, but you don’t “hate” them. You cannot oppress someone and claim not to hate them. You cannot say you “hate the sin but love the sinner,” when the “sin” is entirely fictional.

I need no advice to examine my own beliefs — I do so all the time. It is only the religious who think their own ideas are perfect and beyond criticism. They are always incorrect in this assumption.

I respect your opinion. However, I strongly disagree with your assumptions. You falsely assume that Prop 8 supporters are bigoted and hateful. Those who voted for Prop 8 did not do so because they hated Gays or Lesbians. Such comments are irresponsible and ignorant.

I invite you to pause for a moment and consider the hypocricy of your comments. You admonish a (stereotyped) group of people, based upon your own prejudices.

Do you know why the majority of Californians (Arizonans and Floridans) supported Prop 8 (or similar Props)? Their support was not motivated by hate. I wonder, however, whether your comments and prejudices are motivated by anger and hate.

Respectfully,
LegalCardinal