The last word on gay marriage ...

... goes to the Winnipeg Sun's Charles Adler, here.

An excerpt:

While I am OK with gays wanting to get under the marriage tent, I am not OK with gay rights advocates declaring that everyone I know who is opposed to gay marriage is a homophobe.

Declaring that others have a mental disorder simply because they don't agree with you is not only rude. It's bigotry. And when all the usual suspects come forward to tell you that gay marriage is a human right, that's just flat-out stupidity.

Human beings understand what human rights violations are. They don't need them interpreted by Liberal-appointed judges or other Liberal hacks who never concern themselves with marshalling the soldiers of reason in the battle theatre of ideas.

When Paul Martin is asked whether he supports gay marriage he doesn't give you a straight answer. He starts to lean on all this witchcraft about the charter of rights and how judges interpret the charter which contains not one atomic particle about gay marriage.

More:

Stephen Harper may not have a telegenic personality. He may exhaust three minutes instead of three seconds to answer the question, "Do you love your country?" But does any honest citizen believe he should be "diagnosed" a homophobe or branded a human rights violator because he wants to legally enshrine marriage as an arrangement involving a man and a woman?

By the way, if Canada's sociologists are correct in saying that the average gay and lesbian purchases more goods and services than the straights, would it be homophobic to oppose Mr. Harper's plans to trim the GST tree?

The tax cut will benefit gays and lesbians more than the heteros.

Got a problem with that, Mr. Martin?

Hear, hear. Let's show a little respect for different opinions instead of bending over ass-backwards to call each other names. It's shallow, lazy and intellectually dishonest.