Shrill

David Badash has a nice commentary at The New Civil Rights Movement on Tony Perkins' latest attack in response to yet another poll that shows that most Americans (and that's "real" Americans, Tony) support same-sex marriage.

Tony Perkins, the homophobic, hate-​mongering president of the certified hate group, the Family Research Council, is grasping at straws over Gallup’s latest poll on same-​sex marriage, the sixth nationwide poll to show that a majority of Americans now support same-​sex marriage.

Perkins wrote via Twitter — which, evidently, is now the place to defend your hate — that, “If Gallup polling guides SCOTUS on marriage, (as it did with Blackmun’s Roe decision), decision could become a deep wound in our nation,” and that “[o]n Gallup’s #marriage poll, it should be noted that same-​sex “marriage” was used, not gay “marriage”, homosexual, etc. Words have meaning.”

Yes, they do, and "same-sex marriage" is perfectly correct -- there's nothing particularly gay about marriage, even if the married couple are two men or two women -- that doesn't affect the meaning of the word.

The delicious part of this is that the more shrill and hateful Perkins and his allies get, the more normal people realize that they're a bunch of charlatans. And no one likes seeing someone get that desperate -- it's embarrassing.

So my recommendation to Tony and Maggie and the Peters (both of them) and the rest is simply, "Keep up the good work -- you're winning us allies."