Bfgrn
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I still say who among us has the righteous authority to dictate what somebody else must think, believe, or say? And who should have the righteous authority to organize an angry mob, group, or organization to go after and physically and/or materially punish somebody if they say something that offends us? How does anybody equate that with a tolerant society?
Coming from the group of people who believe they have the righteous authority to dictate who someone can fall in love with, and what a woman is allowed to do with her uterus.
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
This is not a thread about Republicans or Democxrats or social issues of any kind. This thread has to do with freedom of thought, belief, conviction without fear. Try to concentrate on that please.
Of course it is about "Republicans or Democrats or social issues". It is about how one group of people will even go as far as defending a man who advocates pedophilia because of their fear of gays. Then those same people try to control what someone can say.
You keep trying to equate physical punishment with material consequences. They are not even close to being the same. The gay community suffers physical punishment (hate crimes like beatings and murders) and people like Phil Robertson add fuel to the people who carry out those beatings and murders.
I have news for you FF, those people who beat and murder gays, fire bomb abortion clinics and execute doctors who perform those legal procedures are NOT liberals. They are conservatives.