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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 1489 Views
I have to think about that for a while. - 13/10/2010 04:30:56 PM 1045 Views
Suicide is significantly higher in young gay populations - 13/10/2010 05:36:01 PM 961 Views
That is not what I think requires thought - 13/10/2010 05:56:06 PM 991 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 1117 Views
for ze record - 14/10/2010 02:54:07 AM 1015 Views
ok now show that it caused by what Christian beliefs *NM* - 13/10/2010 06:50:32 PM 476 Views
I don't think it's the belief's themselves - 14/10/2010 12:20:01 AM 1008 Views
The churches who encourage people to bully gays should be condemned - 14/10/2010 06:43:06 PM 1020 Views
Re: I have to think about that for a while. - 13/10/2010 06:29:09 PM 970 Views
He was very frank but completely founded - 13/10/2010 04:34:46 PM 1095 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 1083 Views
I'm not sure that is true - 13/10/2010 05:16:30 PM 965 Views
I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 05:45:45 PM 1081 Views
Question (and this one actually is asking for information )... - 13/10/2010 06:42:17 PM 871 Views
Yes and no - 13/10/2010 06:53:26 PM 1174 Views
Okay, fair enough. *NM* - 13/10/2010 07:48:21 PM 453 Views
I would think... - 14/10/2010 04:35:31 AM 1036 Views
I have seen gays be bullied before - 13/10/2010 07:02:35 PM 1089 Views
You just didn't listen to a thing I said *NM* - 13/10/2010 07:09:29 PM 459 Views
I think there's truth in this as well. - 13/10/2010 07:55:00 PM 1009 Views
churches tend to refelect society as much if not more then they influence it - 14/10/2010 07:15:35 PM 980 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 08:30:42 PM 1045 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 13/10/2010 09:55:52 PM 1061 Views
Re: I think you are missing his point - 14/10/2010 03:49:14 PM 1072 Views
Actually you can very much debate whether homosexuality is a sin on a textual level - 14/10/2010 05:49:22 PM 1088 Views
Re: Actually you can very much debate whether homosexuality is a sin on a textual level - 14/10/2010 08:52:24 PM 1126 Views
Do you know greek or hebrew? - 14/10/2010 08:57:32 PM 980 Views
I know a few words here and there, but not really. Do you? - 14/10/2010 10:46:36 PM 1106 Views
I don't look to Christianity for my answers - 15/10/2010 03:02:16 PM 1055 Views
Re: I don't look to Christianity for my answers - 15/10/2010 04:27:25 PM 1103 Views
You're kind of sidestepping a large part of his point - 13/10/2010 05:51:53 PM 1114 Views
so should Christians abandon other religious conviction to stop bullying? - 13/10/2010 07:39:54 PM 993 Views
Re: You're kind of sidestepping a large part of his point - 13/10/2010 08:23:07 PM 1009 Views
That seems a little myopic to me. - 14/10/2010 09:16:27 AM 985 Views
I think he is jackass that does not believe other's can have apoint of view - 13/10/2010 06:48:12 PM 989 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 1086 Views
I mostly agree - 13/10/2010 08:19:00 PM 1149 Views
most of the bullies I remember from school were not known for their regular church attendance - 14/10/2010 07:24:06 PM 980 Views
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Interesting - 13/10/2010 08:56:46 PM 1360 Views
Sometime rants do work and change people's mind - 13/10/2010 09:23:39 PM 964 Views
and sometoimes they are just rants *NM* - 13/10/2010 10:01:55 PM 429 Views
Okay my response now - 14/10/2010 06:04:02 PM 1043 Views
He becomes what he hates. - 14/10/2010 02:40:19 AM 1188 Views
Good stuff. *NM* - 14/10/2010 02:56:44 AM 432 Views
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I think Chora has dibs on that bumper sticker. - 14/10/2010 09:35:02 AM 1133 Views
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It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 15/10/2010 01:16:10 AM 1008 Views
Re: It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 16/10/2010 05:20:56 AM 1079 Views
Re: It's nothing at all like cultural relativism. - 16/10/2010 07:16:21 AM 1006 Views
I don't think there is any question... - 14/10/2010 04:42:45 AM 1011 Views
If I may quibble: - 14/10/2010 05:22:22 AM 868 Views
He's bullying Christians - 14/10/2010 04:47:13 AM 1003 Views
I agree - 14/10/2010 04:09:23 PM 1078 Views
Two seperate things are mingled here - 14/10/2010 09:50:42 AM 1215 Views

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