{"id":7132,"date":"2014-11-14T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:51:35","slug":"gay-man-stands-up-to-equality-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/11\/14\/gay-man-stands-up-to-equality-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Man Stands Up To Equality NAZIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is one thing to ask for tolerance.\u00a0 It is another to crush dissent and rub your defeated enemies nose in the dirt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A UKIP Member of the European Parliament, David Coburn, who happens to be gay, has called out the &#8220;Equality NAZIs&#8221; who redefined the meaning of the word &#8220;marriage&#8221; and force everyone else to support that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ConDlwK5vQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He fought for and fully supports a civil partnership, with all the rights of marriage.\u00a0 His opposition to forcing same-sex marriage on people is based on libertarian grounds:\u00a0 It is insulting to people who hold that marriage is a union of a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Going out of your way to pick a fight with a person of faith is antithetical to <em>real<\/em> tolerance.\u00a0 For those who actually care about <em>real<\/em> tolerance, those who believe that marriage is a union between a man and a woman but are willing to let same-sex partners to have civil unions \u2014 and let the same-sex couple call the union a marriage \u2014 are far more tolerant than those &#8220;Equality NAZIs&#8221; who want to push their beliefs on others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is also the danger of political correctness: Redefining words so they mean whatever you want them to mean.\u00a0 And if you can control the language in a way that forces others to shut up and blindly accept your point of view, nothing stops others from doing the same to you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/David-Copburn-MEP-UKIP.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Copburn MEP UKIP\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7133\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gay Man Stands Up To Equality NAZIs\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"It is one thing to ask for tolerance.  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