Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "We May Have a Gay President Soon" video.

  1. I'm totally down with gay equality and respect, but this total non-story is just one more example of the gay agenda being inappropriately injected into every conversation. Personally, I think that there's likely to be a massive pushback by the conservative majority as a result of the endless conversation about gays at EVERY opportunity.
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  2. Xzamilloh Don't be a drama queen. There was nothing in my post that spoke to equality or respect; simply to the way that non-issues are injected into the conversation at every occasion. Enforced political correctness is the scourge of the modern age.
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  3. Xzamilloh I watch all of Dave's videos. Furthermore, the claim was so preposterous, that I doubted its veracity and wanted to check it out. That doesn't validate the video. "What's the gay agenda?" Are you kidding? The gay agenda is complete equality for gay people; normalisation in the public psyche towards gay people; and the promotion of gay people and issues at every opportunity to accomplish the first two. I totally agree with the first two. I think that the third is a tactic that may backfire. Whilst I encourage the promotion of gay role models in order to help people to recognise that gay people are the  same as them, the forced injection of  this into EVERY conversation, is as tiresome as forcing the atheist agenda into every conversation. Which is precisely what I'm objecting to.
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  4. Xzamilloh Please don't tell me what I do or  do not mean when I talk about the "gay agenda". I articulated PRECISELY what I meant - nothing more, nothing less. The fact that YOU may take it to mean more is down to YOUR insecurity, not my lack of clarity. I didn't say that the gay agenda was bad. In fact, I made it clear that I agreed with the first two aspects of it. The  normalisation of  same sex attraction is a very good thing. It breaks my heart when I see teen after teen committing suicide over gay bullying, and it enrages me to think of all the kids daily suffering from homophobia at school. My school life was made miserable and lonely through racial bullying, so I have great empathy for these kids. But like any social change desired by a minority group, you cannot force people to  accept it simply because it's fair. As for why, there is a gay agenda, there are many reasons. To avoid muddying the water, let's just say that it's because there's no reason NOT to give equal rights to people who have no choice in who they are, simply because one personally disagrees with it. Because personal bigotry or bronze age thinking is no basis for determining social and  legal policy. Any social change tactician would be wise to recognise that there may be a massive difference between changing the  law, and changing people's attitudes. Often the latter leads to the former, as it is doing with marijuana, but if people are commanded by law to change their beliefs, many would sooner die than do so - just ask all the Christians who were fed to the  lions rather than recanting their faith. You and  I really are on the same side, but you seem somewhat sensitive (not without some cause). However, this is exactly  the kind of "bite at everyone" kind of behaviour that ALIENATES people, rather than drawing them towards your position.
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  5. Xzamilloh Idiot
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