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Thread #113080 Message #2400598
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
29-Jul-08 - 04:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: responding to 'hate speech'
Subject: RE: BS: responding to 'hate speech'
Whatever the reason (or excuse) for such feelings, the result is the same old moronic self-serving disgust. Hatred is hatred, whatever sort of face you want to put on it; hide it behind the face of religion and it becomes something worse - justified hatred.
Whatever theological clap-trap is served up by the Roman Catholic Church or the Scottish Britney Spears remains exactly that, theological clap-trap, with no bearing on reality other than to perpetuate what is, at best, a quaint superstition with about as much bearing on reality as Harry Potter.
To disagree with the right of another human being to be what they are goes way beyond simply expressing an opinion, it's challenging the most fundamental right of human existence. Challenge that, for whatever reason, and you challenge everything.