Wackos

There's been a lot of craziness this week. The right-wing opposition to gay marriage has featured such logic as:
-It's fascism.
-Activist judges are blah-blah-blah.
-It destroys/invalidates "traditional" marriage.
-We shouldn't force gay marriage onto people.
-It's against religious beliefs.
-It's strips us of our liberty.

Fascism? Um, no, it's not. It's democracy.
Activist judges? If it's considered "activism" to apply Constitutional protections to every citizen, then sure. Judges: ACTIVATE. Autobots: TRANSFORM.
It ruins "traditional" marriage? I don't get this one at all. Obviously, it doesn't interfere with other marriages, just as a broken heterosexual marriage doesn't interfere with a healthy heterosexual marriage. And calling it "traditional" is ridiculous. Marriage traditions change every few generations. Polygamy, dowries, and arranged have pretty much died out. It's an institution created by people. It evolves with our minds.
We shouldn't force gay marriage onto people? I'm pretty sure it's not mandatory. If so, I'm against anything that's mandatory.
Against religious beliefs? Doesn't every religion preaches equality over everything else?
It strips us of our liberty? This is from a new anti-gay marriage commercial that is airing in a few states. I don't even understand their angle.
It's obvious that there's no rational argument against justice and equality. These people claim to care about "protecting marriage" when all they're really doing is trying to preserve prejudice.

Here's an example:

On a somewhat lighter note, Texas state Rep. Betty Brown, is fucking stupid. From the Houston Chronicle:
Brown suggested that Asian-Americans should find a way to make their names more accessible.
“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.
Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

After the obvious backlash, her response was essentially, "Why Democrats gotta make this about race?" She should have just started her statement with, "Hey, I'm not racist, but..."