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Anti-Gay Bigots Never Rest

No surprise, I guess, though one might have thought they'd be a tad self-conscious about how lame their "arguments" are.

(Thanks to several readers for the pointer to this one.) 

UPDATE:  A reader tells me someone using the name 'brian' is posting on that thread; needless to say, it is not me.

UPDATE 1/26:  A reader points out that the anti-gay crazies have even turned my name into an epithet (apparently a moral objection to discrimination, even by the religious, is really an attempt to seize political power), which is quite an honor coming from that crowd–though as this reader points out, that's a game rather too easy to play.  He writes:

[O]ff the top of my head we can generate:

 

1) Feser (v) —  to be in possession of the unique interpretation of a classic argument that makes it not only work (pace everyone else's views) but makes it decisive.

 

Example:

"Listen, dude, you can keep talking about how the ontological argument "doesn't work" — but I've Fesered it."

 

2) Beckwith — cluelessly exposing the depths of one's depravity by issuing a speedy retraction of one's preposterous and/or offensive utterances that only confirm that the utterances were not (contrary to the retraction) a joke or misunderstood.

 

Example:

"I made a statement that my friends found sexist, but that's okay, it's been Beckwithed by my claim that all the bitches I know understood that it was a joke."

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