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> why not present your opposing view and start a reasonable debate on the subject?

Exclamations like that are just baffling. There's this continuous hateful, spiteful and just awful bigotry being spewed, but when one labels it as such, suddenly one is being unreasonable and one has to engage. I won't take the bait. No sir, thank you.

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I don't think that particular position is necessarily a hateful one. He's arguing from pragmatism. I don't agree with him at all (in this case or any other), but he's an openly gay (and self-admittedly promiscuous) man himself, so you can't say everything out of his mouth stems from homophobic bigotry.

Also, for whatever reason or other, I have at least one openly gay friend (who isn't even that conservative) who agrees with him. Clearly there's room for open debate here.

Ignoring him is probably better than engaging, but that's different from calling for social media providers to censor references to him.

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