You’re Likable Enough, Gay People
You’re Likable Enough, Gay People
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This article brings up some really good points and a note of caution that Obama may already be starting to waffle, backpeddle or modify some of his pre-election stances. |
It makes me happy every time a special interest group complains they are not being catered to.
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Here is Time's take on the same issue.
The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama Quote:
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I find it ironic that those who profess to be "accepting" of alternate lifestyles seem not to accept those with opposing views.
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Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerant.
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Don't confuse lack of support with intolerance.
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Not sure if that was directed at me or Ibby, but I am certainly not.
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No, not you.
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Lack of support for human rights for a group of people is intolerance of those people, as far as i'm concerned.
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I don't buy the, "If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem" bullshit.
For example, the people that actively worked to pass proposition 8 in CA are intolerant, but those that did nothing for or against, can't be automatically labeled intolerant. |
Now you're running into the idea of moral absolutes. If you see something as always wrong, irregardless of the situation with no "it depends" gray area, then it is easy to understand how people who recognize something as a moral absolute can equate inaction as equal to or worse than normal opposition. "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." (name that movie!).
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Nor do I let them call me, or people that feel the way I do, intolerant, unchallenged. I don't expect to change their opinion, just telling them they are not changing mine. |
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I wasn't saying complete neutrals ARE intolerant, i'm just saying that people who 'dont accept' people who really are intolerant arent the intolerant ones, because intolerance of intolerance isn't intolerant. If youre intolerant of people who really don't care, youre just kinda a jerk.
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Oh, so now we're "jerks" because we don't support your friend's campaigns?
I guess that makes you intolerant. |
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