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Re: Gaps Send a noteboard - 14/10/2010 11:50:04 PM
There's a difference between allowing for the idea or the expression of intolerance, and tolerating a policy of intolerance. I don't disallow that the KKK should be allowed to hold marches and want to found an Aryan race, but I would never support that policy in the name of "understanding" or "tolerance" or "Voltaire" or anything else. I'm fine if Joe the revivalist preacher from down the street wants to rail against homosexuals all day (or more frequently, rail homosexuals all night, and then get pulled over for a DUI leaving some backhills gay bar) but I'm not cool with a policy of intolerance. So no, I do no support the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", but I do support your right or anyone else's right to want to have it as a policy. It's like cultural relativism -- I love the philosophy, but in my magic world, two Arab kids wouldn't be buried up to their shoulders and stoned to death just for getting a little horny.
I cannot even copy his manner because the manner of his prose was the manner of his thinking and that was a dazzling succession of gaps; and you cannot ape a gap because you are bound to fill it in somehow or other -- and blot it out in the process. -- Nabokov
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Love the Sinner - 13/10/2010 04:07:28 PM 1272 Views
I have to think about that for a while. - 13/10/2010 04:30:56 PM 798 Views
Suicide is significantly higher in young gay populations - 13/10/2010 05:36:01 PM 737 Views
That is not what I think requires thought - 13/10/2010 05:56:06 PM 753 Views
Nossy I ain't a mind reader, no matter how I try or how much I would do Jean Grey - 13/10/2010 06:06:42 PM 878 Views
for ze record - 14/10/2010 02:54:07 AM 768 Views
ok now show that it caused by what Christian beliefs *NM* - 13/10/2010 06:50:32 PM 373 Views
I don't think it's the belief's themselves - 14/10/2010 12:20:01 AM 779 Views
The churches who encourage people to bully gays should be condemned - 14/10/2010 06:43:06 PM 772 Views
Re: I have to think about that for a while. - 13/10/2010 06:29:09 PM 773 Views
He was very frank but completely founded - 13/10/2010 04:34:46 PM 838 Views
Ah, that Ghandi quote sure does get around. (which is funny, since he wasn't a Christian) - 13/10/2010 05:07:42 PM 856 Views
I'm not sure that is true - 13/10/2010 05:16:30 PM 738 Views
I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 05:45:45 PM 823 Views
Question (and this one actually is asking for information )... - 13/10/2010 06:42:17 PM 663 Views
Yes and no - 13/10/2010 06:53:26 PM 930 Views
Okay, fair enough. *NM* - 13/10/2010 07:48:21 PM 329 Views
I would think... - 14/10/2010 04:35:31 AM 814 Views
I have seen gays be bullied before - 13/10/2010 07:02:35 PM 865 Views
You just didn't listen to a thing I said *NM* - 13/10/2010 07:09:29 PM 336 Views
I think there's truth in this as well. - 13/10/2010 07:55:00 PM 793 Views
churches tend to refelect society as much if not more then they influence it - 14/10/2010 07:15:35 PM 767 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 08:30:42 PM 827 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 09:55:52 PM 828 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 14/10/2010 03:49:14 PM 830 Views
Actually you can very much debate whether homosexuality is a sin on a textual level - 14/10/2010 05:49:22 PM 865 Views
Re: Actually you can very much debate whether homosexuality is a sin on a textual level - 14/10/2010 08:52:24 PM 866 Views
Do you know greek or hebrew? - 14/10/2010 08:57:32 PM 725 Views
I know a few words here and there, but not really. Do you? - 14/10/2010 10:46:36 PM 850 Views
I don't look to Christianity for my answers - 15/10/2010 03:02:16 PM 830 Views
Re: I don't look to Christianity for my answers - 15/10/2010 04:27:25 PM 863 Views
You're kind of sidestepping a large part of his point - 13/10/2010 05:51:53 PM 869 Views
so should Christians abandon other religious conviction to stop bullying? - 13/10/2010 07:39:54 PM 765 Views
Re: You're kind of sidestepping a large part of his point - 13/10/2010 08:23:07 PM 795 Views
That seems a little myopic to me. - 14/10/2010 09:16:27 AM 771 Views
I think he is jackass that does not believe other's can have apoint of view - 13/10/2010 06:48:12 PM 766 Views
That's right, bullying would go away if we didn't have Christians to make moral judgements on things - 13/10/2010 08:11:27 PM 843 Views
I mostly agree - 13/10/2010 08:19:00 PM 924 Views
most of the bullies I remember from school were not known for their regular church attendance - 14/10/2010 07:24:06 PM 749 Views
I thought I pretty much agreed with you on that point - 14/10/2010 07:44:07 PM 797 Views
Interesting - 13/10/2010 08:56:46 PM 1086 Views
Sometime rants do work and change people's mind - 13/10/2010 09:23:39 PM 673 Views
and sometoimes they are just rants *NM* - 13/10/2010 10:01:55 PM 314 Views
Okay my response now - 14/10/2010 06:04:02 PM 821 Views
He becomes what he hates. - 14/10/2010 02:40:19 AM 953 Views
Good stuff. *NM* - 14/10/2010 02:56:44 AM 335 Views
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I think Chora has dibs on that bumper sticker. - 14/10/2010 09:35:02 AM 906 Views
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It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 15/10/2010 01:16:10 AM 752 Views
Re: It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 16/10/2010 05:20:56 AM 852 Views
Re: It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 16/10/2010 07:16:21 AM 773 Views
I don't think there is any question... - 14/10/2010 04:42:45 AM 796 Views
If I may quibble: - 14/10/2010 05:22:22 AM 647 Views
He's bullying Christians - 14/10/2010 04:47:13 AM 776 Views
I agree - 14/10/2010 04:09:23 PM 871 Views
Two seperate things are mingled here - 14/10/2010 09:50:42 AM 973 Views

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