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I think it's a completely fair interpretation of what you wrote.

The guy is a bigot. He worked to ensure that a class of people had fewer rights than other classes of people. If that doesn't make you a bigot, I don't know what does.

I'm disappointed that you wasted our time with that completely ridiculous argument. That said, thanks for letting me know that if I ever take a morally abhorrent position on something, you'll be there to say I'm a great guy, and that even if I'm not, people should still work for me.

(though even in that world, I think it's baffling that you managed to attack people who don't want to work for a bigot as being somehow bigoted...)



To derail this a little:

There's every chance that donating $8,000 to a cause was not about Gay Anything, and he was supporting a cause of someone he wanted to butter up / chat with / get into the table with.

Trust me: the "tipping culture" goes way beyond DC & lobbyists.

Corruption: for when donating to a cause to get favor gets a LGBT response. Shitty PR, and probably deserves it for currying favor with <subject X> but really not that uncommon.

Boo! Politics is dirty; reeeeal dirty.


If so, he's corrupt instead of bigoted. Doesn't (materially) change whether someone would want to work with the guy.




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