It is totally a non-issue for most people, but homophobes still see it as an issue because, well, because they're homophobes. Nobody else gives a shit, we're too busy just getting on with life.

You would think after 10 years they'd realize it wasn't a big deal but these types of people will never question their own convictions no matter how much evidence contradicts them.

This guy starts out kind of cool and likeable, and slowly gets uptight and creepy. The lead that he buries is something about gay families being ten times more likely to molest children. I haven't heard this before, but it sounds pretty serious. If he gives the source of that statistic, he's buried it in another part of the video. I checked the description box and there's no link to the source of that information, but there is a link to his "GUT-PUNCHINGLY HILARIOUS" MEMOIR. That's a pretty good description of what watching this video feels like, except that it's not all that hilarious.

Five stars for David Cross, carpet-bombing the world with his phallus.

JHM, the graph shown looks to come from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Family_Structures_Study

As you can see it's heavily disputed.

When even Utah backs away from your bigot study...

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/tag/mark-regnerus

The Canadian case he mentions is Smith v Knights of Columbus which reaffirmed the group's right to discriminate against homosexuals according to Catholic doctrine (ie they didn't have to rent their hall to the gays). The fine was because they were dicks about it. So, not surprisingly, he's lying.

That's a more well documented fact than anything he cites.

Also all his 'data' is just magazine articles.

Yeah, I stopped paying attention to him years ago because it seemed like the line between his schtick and his actual belief system was becoming very fuzzy. It looks like it's only gotten worse since then.

I think guys like McInnes and Goad are mainly a reaction to the hyper-sensitive culture that the extreme left has created. They push hard in the other direction, meeting fire with fire until an equilibrium is reached. I would wager that they're less racist than the majority of limousine liberals who preach multiculturalism from the safety of their wealthy de facto segregated suburbs. They're certainly far less hypocritical.

I don't know enough about McInnes to say for sure one way or another, but the phenomenon Void71 discusses is very real: Lately, I've started to hate liberals almost as much as conservatives on account of being equally hyper-reactionary, but lacking the intellectual honesty to admit it.

Just imagine South Park taken to its absolute extreme: They create edgy, offensive humor to push back against a culture that views any kind of moral judgment whatsoever as "unfortunate" or "problematic". Parker and Stone are good at maintaining a balance between provocative and insightful, but most people can't handle that balance.

I feel the same way about trans-people. To me, they're no different from Otherkin. You're not allowed to mock the former, but you are the latter. Why? They're both groups of mentally ill people pretending to be something they're not. Why is it okay to point and laugh at an obvious human claiming to be a fox, but not an obvious man claiming to be a woman? We could have a rational discussion about this without using the words "shaming" or "problematic," but our culture forbids this. Comedians who push against this trend are very, very necessary.

Porch is that way, bigots.

Yowl all you want, society has left you.

It's a good thing.

The left's lunatic fringe has overplayed its hand. An increasing number of people are seeing their inherent clownishness and they aren't afraid to point at them and laugh anymore - even people like me who are radically to the left on issues that matter, like the economy and the environment. It's becoming very apparent that they're nothing more than klansmen in rainbow hoods, spewing hatred at anyone who doesn't share their worldview. Extremism of any political stripe is inherently unsustainable because normal people always fall somewhere in the middle.

Oh God, you all sound like EvilHomer now.

The real Klan, the one you defend while pretending to know shit about, has been known to commit homicide over disagreement.

You're not oppressed, just not insulated from the social ramifications of your opinions, which is what you're crying over. If the gay klan started killing you in the streets, you'd have a point.

Until then, it's the sugary tears of clowns and everyone else sees it.

You're trying to battle one extreme with another, finding bogeymen where they don't exist. This is causing you to turn into the very thing you think you're fighting against.

Violent bigotry and civil rights are neither equivalent nor opposites. Everyone not an extremist knows this, it's self-evident.

I sincerely mean it when I say that when people such as yourself talk like this, you're nowhere near as slick about it as you think you are. Justifying bigotry isn't a matter of finding the right magic combination of words, arguments aren't unmade by incantation, there is observational data backing the other side. That data works against you, but that doesn't change the fact it's there, and it cannot be unmade by being a word wizard. Your line of argument would have failed a thousand years ago, leaving you to have to back it up with violence, which is what happens with extremists.

You're not fooling anyone.