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Thread #115854   Message #2666521
Posted By: Little Hawk
28-Jun-09 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Ebbie - Yuck! I read a paragraph or two of it and that was quite enough, thanks. It's a tale of mutual hatred and loathing, combined with utter certainty of one's own moral superiority to someone else, and those are the emotions which fuel that particular confrontation...from either side. I see no possibility of it leading to anything useful on either side. The religious fanatics in that church will just be all the more sure that THEY are in the right and are saving humanity by driving the "demon" out of a boy...and the guy writing to them will wallow gloriously in his own righteous loathing and detestation of them, sure that HE is making the world safer for humanity, and everybody's day will get a little bit nastier.

A good basis for launching a war, if that's what you want, but not a good basis for improving anyone's attitude on the subject.