I don't think they do, but a few certainly do their best to taint the whole. Listen to this accidental recording of a pilot ranting about what he really thinks (warning: autoplay at that link): he's complaining that 11 of 12 flight attendants on his plane are gay, and the 12th is a granny; he complains about going to a bar and finding only one woman who is "doable"; he just goes on and on about hating gays, old people, and ugly people.
It's a repulsive look at how some people think. Or don't think.
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The Pew Research Center has released the results of a national survey with some very good news for advocates of gay marriage.
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Sadly, I think it's the latter. As many others have remarked on a variety of issues, one of the most pernicious effects of the right wing has been to mainstream crazy and hateful positions.
Buju Banton, a Jamaican reggae artist whose tour is being greeted with protests by gay rights supporters all over the country, says he's not a gay basher:
Violence
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Violence
Apologia for rape and violence
Death and suffering occasioned by deliberate neglect
I oppose the idea that people should be treated like animals because they had the misfortune to be born in the wrong place, or to the wrong parents. If that makes me a weirdo (which, in our sick and greed-driven society, it probably does), then I'm proud to be a weirdo.