11:48 pm - Arguments What Hurt My Brane
Shelby County (Tennessee) Commissioner Wyatt Bunker was quoted in an article about a proposed antidiscrimination measure (published 2009-05-06) thus: "I don't belive people are born gay. I don't agree with discrimination against them, but I'm not going to give them a lot of protections that give legitimacy to homosexual behavior."
So let's see whether I've translated this correctly: "I don't agree with discrimination but I think it's important to make sure the county that I help run is allowed to discriminate." (Why, Mr. Bunker? In case you change your mind about discriminating ... or get caught at it?)
Elsewhere, unrelatedly, I observe that reading (paraphrased, but only barely), "Maybe if you weren't so rude and hostile as to call what I said 'the Tone Argument' and label it derailing, I'd be more inclined to listen to your objections to it," really makes my head hurt.
(The thought that I may have been that clueless sometime in the past does not help.)