Political Aside

[snailprincess]

Let me be frank. If you think that the Cordoba center should not be allowed to be built near the site of the World Trade Center, you are an idiot and a bigot and you're willing to sell out one of the of the most fundamental rights we have to prevent a few other idiots and bigots from having their feelings hurt. If, like many commentators and

Comments

[paperclippy]

+1

[omega697]

I think this one is brown and white.

[omega697]

(+1)

[lorimt]

I agree completely. Seriously, how is this even pretending to be debatable?!

[leech]

I wrote some angry e-mails to the spineless pigfuckers at the ADL.

[zixi]

Oh thank god I'm not the only person who was absolutely livid at the ADL for that one.

[bennj]

Honestly, how could the ADL do that? When someone first told me about it, I was sure it was a hoax.

[zixi]

I know!

What gets me is this part:
We categorically reject appeals to bigotry on the basis of religion, and condemn those whose opposition to this proposed Islamic Center is a manifestation of such bigotry.

Which they say right before explaining why the Center shouldn't build there, in a manner that sure as heck seems to be manifesting that bigotry.

This stance just goes against everything the ADL claims to stand for and makes me wary of supporting them.

[leech]

http://amultiverse.com/2010/08/17/pony-tales/