Is it wrong to be unwilling to tolerate hate?
How about lies and propaganda? Refusing to believe our best scientific knowledge? Using religion to force your own agenda even when many members of your religion disagree with said agenda?
I'm not generally one for shutting down speech, but I'm up for speaking out against http://silencingchristians.com/. You can take a non-scientific, completely biased and poorly-written 'survey' at this site (bring your favorite spam email address if you don't want emails). They would like to share the results with national media to prove that Americans have 'family values' that make it okay to discriminate against gays but not against blacks. While you're there, you can watch the one-hour special (produced by the AFA) that they hope to air nationally where they reveal that homosexuals have been brainwashing the population using horrible techniques like calling themselves 'gay' and coming up with terms like 'homophobia' and 'bigot' to describe those who are.. um... yeah, I'll let you fill that in yourself. They claim that there's no evidence that shows that kids are okay being raised by gay or lesbian parents, and that there's plenty of experiential evidence that shows that children don't know how to deal with those situations. (Which is blatantly untrue.) From the HRC: The "anchor" of this faux-news program, which may have already aired in smaller markets, is controversial talk show host Janet Parshall, who in 2006 suggested Matthew Shepard's lifestyle was responsible for his murder and called gay adoption "state-sanctioned child abuse."
*sigh* There's more to say, but I doubt it would be helpful to say any of it.
If you think that hour-long gay-bashing specials deserve air time, I won't hold it against you. Like I said, I'm not one who's usually up for shutting down speech and shutting down this particular speech ("how the homosexual agenda is silencing Christians") is actually a little bit odd. But TV stations also choose what they air. If you'd like to encourage the first station that's planning to show this special to replace it with an actual debate about the issues you can do that very easily through the HRC here. (Again, bring your spam email address if you'd prefer to not get emails.)
I'm not generally one for shutting down speech, but I'm up for speaking out against http://silencingchristians.com/. You can take a non-scientific, completely biased and poorly-written 'survey' at this site (bring your favorite spam email address if you don't want emails). They would like to share the results with national media to prove that Americans have 'family values' that make it okay to discriminate against gays but not against blacks. While you're there, you can watch the one-hour special (produced by the AFA) that they hope to air nationally where they reveal that homosexuals have been brainwashing the population using horrible techniques like calling themselves 'gay' and coming up with terms like 'homophobia' and 'bigot' to describe those who are.. um... yeah, I'll let you fill that in yourself. They claim that there's no evidence that shows that kids are okay being raised by gay or lesbian parents, and that there's plenty of experiential evidence that shows that children don't know how to deal with those situations. (Which is blatantly untrue.) From the HRC: The "anchor" of this faux-news program, which may have already aired in smaller markets, is controversial talk show host Janet Parshall, who in 2006 suggested Matthew Shepard's lifestyle was responsible for his murder and called gay adoption "state-sanctioned child abuse."
*sigh* There's more to say, but I doubt it would be helpful to say any of it.
If you think that hour-long gay-bashing specials deserve air time, I won't hold it against you. Like I said, I'm not one who's usually up for shutting down speech and shutting down this particular speech ("how the homosexual agenda is silencing Christians") is actually a little bit odd. But TV stations also choose what they air. If you'd like to encourage the first station that's planning to show this special to replace it with an actual debate about the issues you can do that very easily through the HRC here. (Again, bring your spam email address if you'd prefer to not get emails.)