The "tired analogies" part jumped out at me, as I just wrote something about that last night. I know there are conservatives/libertarians who talk in cliches as well, but doesn't it seem that an unusual number of progressives are unable to get beyond mildly clever insults and automatic downloads of their single thought on a topic? It reinforces my idea that liberalism is mostly a social acceptance phenomenon rather than a set of intellectual ideas (those get added on later).

It seems to me that around us, from children to the old, we are surrounded by gays. These our friends, our loved ones, our children. We know many truly good people who just want to be loved, and free to love. How can we hate our friends, loved ones, our children? It is the truth of human existence that we fear what we don't understand. They are gay. It is O.K. Why would they CHOOSE something they fear will make those THEY love, hate or abandon them? Just because some religious rambling says so? We must follow our hearts, our souls. Love our people. ALL our people. It is so very important we do so. Or we will never be one as a people. Stop your child fearing you. Let them be the only thing they feel they can. Show them how to love themselves and to love in life honorably, with caring, and instill in them the future. This world is so many, with many voices screaming to be heard, when all these people want is love. Let them love, give them that right.