Every movement requires extremists... without extremists, you don't have moderate followers. Without the Ted Cruz's of the world, you don't have guys like moderate Romney or McCain being nominated.
I just find it head scratching that the "LGBT" crowd is this abhorrent monster getting everyone fired, when just as simple as recent history, Chik Fil A and Duck Dynasty are still standing. As Zito pointed out long ago in another thread, Elich worked for a progressive company with progressive consumers. This wasn't 200 people that got him resigned, I believe it was 70k petitioning if not more. Nobody told him to resign. He resigned because he realized he f'd up.
For somewhat that cares so much about free speech, you should be glad they stood up for something when it came to Chik-Fil-A or Duck Dynasty. Would you rather have them not empowering their right to the first amendment? Their "intimidation" didn't appear to work did it.
When you say things like "the more they push things like that and Elich, the more people resent them, IMO". That sounds just like the tea party to me. The more they kept trying to repeal Obamacare, shutdown the government, and cut social programs, the more people got turned off by them and now they're just looked at as a joke fringe party.
Without a Martin Luther King Jr., you don't have millions of marchers.
If you didn't have "gay extremists" or demand marriage equality, there wouldn't be 17 states with same-sex marriage. When AZ almost passed their stupid bill, businesses came out in full force to stop it. Same thing in Georgia with a similar bill. Coca Cola was one of the front in center companies that told the GA State Legislature to not continue on the bill. Real businesses understand the importance of not discriminating gays. The biggest problem I have with libertarians is they say they support it but leave it up the states. That's a half-ass lazy view of getting something done that should be done. Clear as crystal that the chances of gay marriage getting passed in the deep south are almost impossible, at least not for another 20-30 years.
