I believe that discussion of the role of bigotry, including subtle bigotry, has an important place in the national conversation about lgbt rights...It's easy to assume Barry is just looking for a more clever way to play the bigot card to silence the debate. After all, that's what the usual attempt is. But let's give Barry the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant exactly what he said, that the role of bigotry is important in this discussion. I'll leave the comment trail open for him to explain himself, but if he really meant what he said, here's why it is so meaningful...
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Should Barry ever explain himself I'll address his comments here, so stay tuned.
In the mean time, I'll just point out that bigotry is the ultimate appeal to identity politics, which we have opposed repeatedly on this blog. While there may be some who use identity politics to oppose neutering marriage, those arguments are not the mainstream arguments made in the defense of marriage. From our first post, we have never appealed to identity politics to defend marriage on this blog.
Defending marriage does not depend on identity politics at all. Neutering it does and so does anti-miscegenation. I have never seen an argument for either (certainly not by Barry) that did not devolve into an appeal to identity politics. So, if bigotry "has an important place in the national conversation" about neutering marriage, as Barry claims, it is not on this side of that conversation.
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