If you want to ban gay marriage, then you're a socialist.

Democracy is about citizens pursuing life and happiness in a manner which pleases them.

If you want to interfere and stop others from doing that, then you have to have sound reasons such as the protection of our fellow citizens who cannot protect themselves.

You cannot intervene merely on the grounds that you don't like something. That is nothing but state-sponsored bullying.

If you are a Republican, someone who believes in freedom of choice and that government intervention should be kept only to minimal and necessary actions, then how is it possible to justify preventing other people from being happy?  If two gay people chose to marry, it has no impact on non-gays. If we're against gay marriage then we don't have to marry someone of the same sex. That is the limit of our opposition and that should be the limit imposed by the state. We don't like it, we don't have to do it. And as it has no direct impact on us, we don't have the right to stop others from doing it. Anything else is an unwarranted intrusion from big government. It is anti-democratic.

Dicks and Dictators: On why crotch shots are democracy's friend

Weiner's been hounded out of Congress for sending pictures of his crotch to various people. Why? What he wants to do in his spare time is his concern and his alone.  He's been forced out for moralistic reasons; forced to resign because it was against the aesthetic and ethic tastes of certain other people. He did nothing illegal, so what has he done exactly that really means he should not serve his full term?

In a democracy and a society that is truly egalitarian in citizenship, we  must be accepting and tolerant of difference. Whether we like or embrace that difference is irrelevant. If something is legal but not to our taste or our way of doing things, it doesn't matter. We still have to let others go about and do their thing and we still have to stand up and defend their right to do it. If we don't then we're nothing but a bunch of moralizing egomaniacs who believe our way and our tastes are the only way of doing things. That is, we become intolerant dictators of how others should live.

It's your constitutional right to be a dick

David Tyree says the push to legalize gay marriage in the United States will be "the beginning of our country sliding toward ... anarchy"  and that "... two men will never be able to show a woman how to be a woman."

It's clearly his right to be a sexist, ignorant, bigot, but it is beyond his right to impose his sexist, ignorant bigotry upon others. He doesn't like it, he doesn't have to support it and he doesn't have to partake in it. He doesn't like or agree with gay marriage, then simply put, he doesn't have to marry someone of the same sex. That should be the limit of his power of veto on the subject. It doesn't affect him, so he should have no say on the matter. In a phrase, he should butt out.

What Happens In Vegas

Waiting staff who don't pay attention and argue with you even when they are wrong.
Hotels that stink of Febreze to hide the cigarette smoke.
Rancid smokers who insist on smoking indoors, just because they can.

Hookers.
Strippers.
Chinese.
Fat people.
Fat Chinese people.

Chain restaurants.
High end stores in malls.
High end restaurants in malls.
High end restaurants selling their hard-earned name to make a fast buck at an ersatz restaurant bearing the same name.

Ersatz.

College students who think it is wild to be able to carry an open beer in the street.
People who want your money.
Security at hotels who let the hookers go to the rooms without a glance but who check the foreign looking families.
The rich and famous selling their over-priced wares to the poor and anonymous.
People who think all of this is good.

All of what happens in Vegas, can stay in Vegas.

They're welcome to it.