Comments | blainn: Liberating Intolerance

blainn

Liberating Intolerance

Nov 13, 2008 13:29

Remember Political Correctness? It was so 90s, so silly, and based in developing "sensitive" terms that didn't accept culturally-based "norms" as moral points of reference. Everyone made fun of such silly terms as "vertically challenged," and "differently abled," and the whole thing faded away, right ( Read more... )

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che November 13 2008, 23:45:58 UTC

The issue of those who were in favor of Prop 8 isn't about them being on the wrong side, nor is it about PC, it's about rights. People do not get to vote on people's rights...if we did, then there's a good chance that there would be places in America where Jim Crow would be alive and well ( ... )

blainn November 14 2008, 02:47:37 UTC

You're giving a reason to vote against Prop 8, which is quite aside the point of what I'm talking about. I'm not a California voter, nor is it before the election, so this message isn't going anywhere ( ... )

che November 14 2008, 18:36:24 UTC

I don't think the gay people using racial slurs or attacking the Mormon church are in the right. I wish people could behave with the most proper and tidy etiquette when dealing with issues they have problems with, however I find it hard to completely dismiss people who feel like their rights are being taken from them simply because of who they want to marry.

As for you claim that, "There isn't a word in anything published by the church having to do with Prop 8 that even tolerates hate toward gay and lesbian people, let alone that advocates hate toward anybody." I would submit this quote from a letter sent out by the LDS, "We ask that you do all you can to support the proposed constitutional amendment by donating of your means and time to assure that marriage in California is legally defined as being between a man and a woman. Our best efforts are required to preserve the sacred institution of marriage." (http://newsroom.lds ( ... )

blainn November 14 2008, 19:19:43 UTC

Okay, you include the quote, which shows no tolerance for any act of hatred toward anybody, and you excluded the part that specifically says that there should be no unkindness shown to gay and lesbian people (google, again, is your friend, and it has more than one source). All you have shown is what was known -- the Church encouraged its members to support Prop 8. Woo ( ... )

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