Gay Friends: Is This Okay With YOU??
By Maggiepie
@Maggiepie (7816)
United States
July 4, 2011 3:44am CST
I found this by accident (there are other sites with the news; this was merely the first), reporting that people who are viewed as a threat to homosexuals politically are getting death threats.
Now, I doubt there are many (yet...), but nothing seems to be getting done about the people who are sending hateful mail & threatening phone calls. I find that sad, & more than a little frightening, as it means that trust in the system is breaking down that this is happening at all. It's hardly the first sign of that, true, but in fact, that makes it worse. The fact that this seems ubiquitous in every area of life & law should scare the pants off people who believe in the rule of law, not to mention personal safety & privacy!
Go to the following link, & read what's there. It shouldn't matter that the site is geared toward Conservatives, so long as the facts are in order. Besides, you can always find it elsewhere. In fact, I suggest you look several places, & compare.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317681
Once you've read it, come back & put in your 2 cents.
Maggiepie
"(T)he discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny." ~ Edward Gibbon, historian, from "History of the Roman Empire"
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@jeanena (2198)
• Bucklin, Kansas
5 Jul 11
I did read it and here are my shiny 2 pennies . There are a lot of different groups of people who have their own militant types out there . I do have a lot of Gay friends myself that would think that was just horrible to threaten people because of their stand on Gay marriage.
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
6 Jul 11
Same here. As I said above you, to another poster, "hate is hate." I don't have a single gay or non-Christian (or atheist) friend who would do these things, or tolerate them being done--to anyone! I wouldn't make friends with anyone who would!
Maggiepie
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~ William James, psychologist, philosopher 1842-1910
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
4 Jul 11
Oh, that tolerance!
Not for nothing, but on a 1:1 scale, someone believing that traditional marriage is sacred may in fact be a bigot, but someone who would threaten to kill that person is far worse.
These types of stories used to surprise me.
After watching hundreds of movies and dozens of series and reading countless articles about how one group of Americans is wholly peace-loving and just and the other is full up with nastiness and bigotry, I would often be surprised when I found out about the self-proclaimed enlightened lashing out like animals over something they disagree with.
Then I realized that the whole peace-loving spiel was pure fiction. And while I still see it fictionalized all throughout the mainstream, about how it's the one peaceful group protesting politely for its collective rights, the reality is different, and I see it with the unions and at the one-up Beck rallies and on the news daily and on college campuses and during damn near every march they go on.
I realize it's a fringe. But there's also a part of me that wants to use Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's logic about the fringe. He states that "when the fringe follows the group, the group is the fringe."
This is how he asserted that the tea party is racist. So by that standard, all Muslims are terrorists and all black people are criminals and all Italians are in the mafia and leftists are idiots.
Not my logic. That's from the highly respected Columbia professor.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
4 Jul 11
I rarely respect leftist colleges' professors...
I'm just sayin'...
Other than that, I get you, & I think we're pretty much in agreement, here.
Maggiepie
"(T)he discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny." ~ Edward Gibbon, historian, from "History of the Roman Empire"
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