that support protecting the traditional definition of marriage don't do it because they are "hateful bigots". But then, that is what you do when the other side disagrees with you. You dehumanize them. It justifies your own hate and rage without forcing you to try to look at it from their point of view and see the decent human in them.
Of course it is a lot easier to just paint everybody with the "hateful bigot" label if they see it differently than you. It has been an extremely effective tool in the fight over the definition of marriage. People on both sides are guilty of it.
Of course it is a lot easier to just paint everybody with the "hateful bigot" label if they see it differently than you. It has been an extremely effective tool in the fight over the definition of marriage. People on both sides are guilty of it.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A Bible belt conservative spent a year pretending to be gay
- 14/10/2012 12:25:34 PM
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OK, I thought that was cool. Put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. *NM*
- 14/10/2012 12:37:55 PM
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Plenty of the comments are really disheartening
- 14/10/2012 07:23:42 PM
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There was one that I thought pretty good:
- 15/10/2012 10:57:42 PM
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I have to agree with that one. Most people come out in order to be more honest with their family.
- 16/10/2012 02:39:46 AM
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"The vast majority of conservative Christians are not hateful bigots at all."
- 15/10/2012 10:55:34 PM
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He does say his mother came around in the end.
- 15/10/2012 10:57:50 PM
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Maybe most conservative christians...
- 15/10/2012 11:44:13 PM
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Sorry, that is just an attempted role-reversal; objecting to hatred is not the "real hatred."
- 16/10/2012 01:26:39 AM
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In addition, the bible doesn't forbid it. The bible is not a monolithic work, but an anthology.
- 16/10/2012 02:32:59 AM
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What I said is correct.
- 16/10/2012 05:49:13 PM
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Dude, the "You're intolerant of intolerance!" argument is so played out
- 16/10/2012 08:34:35 PM
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I think he has a good point. It just shouldn't be generalized so far as he is doing.
- 16/10/2012 09:23:13 PM
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Wrong. I am talking about labels and what they are used for.
- 16/10/2012 10:42:11 PM
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And on the other hand, various "logical justifications" tend to boil down to one thing:
- 16/10/2012 11:01:50 PM
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I actually DO believe that anti-gay-marriage people eat babies ;-) *NM*
- 16/10/2012 11:32:35 PM
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We use "bigot" like Christians use "sinner."
- 16/10/2012 09:12:39 PM
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You can't just assume someone has the motivation you want them to have.
- 16/10/2012 11:08:09 PM
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For me it is as simple as looking into my own heart, several years back.
- 17/10/2012 04:51:13 AM
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