"Personal experience?" These are politicians with voting records and histories of attending anti-gay functions where the line of thought is "these people are destroying our country." They give money to organizations that try to convince your grandma that you're out there fucking little kids. Who's talking about the…

Not really, it's a shitty analogy that only works if you accept the pretense that homosexuality is a "sin" that must be compared to theft and the medical illness known as "drug addiction". If, while making an analogy, you need to constantly clarify your position, you should not be making that analogy.

Genji doesn't personally know anyone who thinks this way, so they don't exist, everyone. That's how this works.

Are any of your conservative friends in the list of tweets Igor Volsky is calling out? Do you personally know Mike Huckabee?

Your method of establishing your point both a) makes look like you're equating homosexuality and drug addiction, and b) displays a hilarious ignorance to what drug addiction is, how it starts, how it works, and how it's treated.

This is not a line of debate you want to pursue.

You are talking about a country where the lead right-wing candidate is running purely on a Culture Wars campaign. You're talking about a political party who is trying their damnedest to spin this from "a hate crime at a gay club" to "an international terrorist incident at a non-sexually-identifying-club" in an effort…

People like Mike Huckabee, who said he wanted to put gay people into camps not even a year ago, now tweeting about how touched he is by the loss of life in Orlando? The people like Ted Cruz and the cadre of politicians who proudly attended Kevin Swanson's "kill the gays" conference?

Why should I be grateful to politicians who, going by their previous sentiment for LGBT folks, likely wish they had been pulling the trigger themselves?