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By Phoenix.Amandarius 2014-05-10 12:02:50
Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:04:30
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »I didn't mean for that to be a noose, but I guess you're free to hang yourself with it. Basically.
Oh no, I'm not hanging myself with it, you just -THINK- it's ok to talk down to others because they think differently. Am I wrong? I don't think anything of the sort.
I think it's OK to talk down to silly beliefs that have no backing when people make them public.
I think it's OK to talk down to bigoted hateful people, as they're the scum of the earth.
Do I think it's OK to lump all Christians together, when it's mostly the zealots that are loud, and not the average day person? not entirely, but the society itself breeds them, and the source of the religion is a hate filled book of myths in the first place, designed by men to oppress others, so I don't really feel bad when they do lump you all together.
But nice job on being a stereotypical right wing nut job.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:04:41
Phoenix.Amandarius said: »Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior.
Did I burn a house? Do you think I deserve to be called some uneducated bigot just because my religion happens to be the same?
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:05:05
Phoenix.Amandarius said: »Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior. Then we'll just have to disagree, as I don't believe any rational person would deduce that.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:05:28
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Phoenix.Amandarius said: »Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior.
Did I burn a house? Do you think I deserve to be called some uneducated bigot just because my religion happens to be the same? You weren't though.
By fonewear 2014-05-10 12:05:38
Isn't this like the third thread we have had about gay fascism ? Is this the new trend ?
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:06:01
Isn't this like the third thread we have had about gay fascism ? Is this the new trend ? It's fashionable.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2014-05-10 12:06:13
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »it's ok to talk down to others because they think differently Thought every christian ever.
He he he.
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By Bismarck.Bloodrose 2014-05-10 12:07:05
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »How about you shut the *** up? You just labeled every Christian as a hating bigot. I'm sorry, I didn't know I was some uneducated *** who likes to oppress people.
No? I don't?
Just because someone is a Christian Sparth, does not mean they are what you say you are. Most Christians actually don't give a frog's fat ***, it's the religious zealots making the moderate majority look bad, and you just made yourself look ignorant by stating that.
Am I mad? Yeah, that's an insult directed at me, my family, and my friends whom are Christian. Take your crap elsewhere if you're going to hurl *** lies. You've got a lot of religious zealots in your midst, then. Might want to take care of that - I hear if it's left untreated, it gets worse.
Oh it's perfectly alright to bash Christians, but when one honest person who is a Christian tries to stand up for themselves, it turns into a piss kicking here on this website.
Yeah it's bad to be anti-gay, but tbh why is everyone always gunning after Christians and stereotyping them as uneducated, assholeish, oppressive, unreasonable bigots? That drives me up a wall, I could always just take into consideration and do something equal to every other religion/sexuality/political stance.
Gays? Yeah don't care about you, you're getting legalized soon so idc.
Atheists? Yeah also don't care about you, I do care when you bash my views out of nowhere and think I'm in the wrong for defending my views. Can I prove god is there? Uh no, I cannot, that's why it's called 'faith' I don't need you to believe, in fact go sit in the sandbox and play, I'm happy with my religion and I don't need someone talking down to me.
Liberals? Lol nice job in the white house, country's a mess, cold war might be unofficially happening again, the President won't listen to anyone but himself and is about as dumb as a brick when it comes to politics. I mean, riding in on a skateboard to the power summit? Really? Then don't get me STARTED on that horrible health care plan that is currently screwing my family over, and the countless others who were waiting months because their systems weren't working.
Oh wait I'm not allowed to say this in a P&R THread? Well boo-*** hoo, if the people in this community can bash my views and I have to sit and take it because I can't opt out of seeing a damn P&R Thread, then Hell I'm going to be saying my peace.
Libtards and others only want to target Christians, they don't care about anything else and want a scapegoat, it just so happens that Christians got drawn for that, and since the zealots making the rest of us look bad are the targets, that stereotypes us -all- You just answered why Christians as a whole are stereo-typed.
The majority shown are uneducated assclowns who can't even subscribe to the actual message the religion is supposed to be spreading, and cherry pick bits and pieces out of the bible to further their own cause.
Hell, most of them aren't even aware of the number of times the holy text as been edited, or just how many scriptures have been removed or added, ignored, or intentionally misinterpreted to spread hate, to destroy and oppress for nigh close to 2 millennia, and so on.
I was born and raised Christian, and see so much *** hypocrisy, even from the moderates.
"Love thy neighbor" but it's ok to hate the *** out of everyone who doesn't follow my religion or religious doctrine.
As a good Christian, you're also taught to "turn the other cheek" and not sink down to the levels of those who would cause you harm, which is again, hypocrisy because of the longstanding tradition of ripping kids from their parents, whipping and beating them until they spoke Enlgish like an "enlightened person", rather than one "the devil's children".
So forgive us non-believers for lumping the majority of the uneducated Christians in with the rest of the uneducated Christians, which perpetuate their own stereotype.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:08:03
But nice job on being a stereotypical right wing nut job.
Oh perfectly ok to call me a nutjob just because we think differently. Please keep telling me how I'm the scum of the earth for standing up for honest human beings who are being unjustly put into the stereotype.
Please by all means, tell me what makes it right to judge someone without getting to know them beforehand just because they follow a religion? How is it morally ok to just judge someone? Don't even -THINK- you can take the moral high ground with me, because I've seen how you treat others and how you provoked people to lash back at you in that UW thread.
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By Cerberus.Tikal 2014-05-10 12:08:24
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »I didn't mean for that to be a noose, but I guess you're free to hang yourself with it. Basically.
Oh no, I'm not hanging myself with it, you just -THINK- it's ok to talk down to others because they think differently. Am I wrong? Indeed you are hanging yourself with it. Your post is driven by emotions, using language that implies you have no balance of perspective; basically, in one post, you've shown you're incapable of having an intellectual discourse.
That's okay though, considering our peers. Quite a few are in the same quadrant - and no, before you begin, it's not any imaginary partisan line, or anything silly like that.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2014-05-10 12:09:08
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »How is it morally ok to just judge someone? Golden.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:10:26
Bismarck.Bloodrose said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »How about you shut the *** up? You just labeled every Christian as a hating bigot. I'm sorry, I didn't know I was some uneducated *** who likes to oppress people.
No? I don't?
Just because someone is a Christian Sparth, does not mean they are what you say you are. Most Christians actually don't give a frog's fat ***, it's the religious zealots making the moderate majority look bad, and you just made yourself look ignorant by stating that.
Am I mad? Yeah, that's an insult directed at me, my family, and my friends whom are Christian. Take your crap elsewhere if you're going to hurl *** lies. You've got a lot of religious zealots in your midst, then. Might want to take care of that - I hear if it's left untreated, it gets worse.
Oh it's perfectly alright to bash Christians, but when one honest person who is a Christian tries to stand up for themselves, it turns into a piss kicking here on this website.
Yeah it's bad to be anti-gay, but tbh why is everyone always gunning after Christians and stereotyping them as uneducated, assholeish, oppressive, unreasonable bigots? That drives me up a wall, I could always just take into consideration and do something equal to every other religion/sexuality/political stance.
Gays? Yeah don't care about you, you're getting legalized soon so idc.
Atheists? Yeah also don't care about you, I do care when you bash my views out of nowhere and think I'm in the wrong for defending my views. Can I prove god is there? Uh no, I cannot, that's why it's called 'faith' I don't need you to believe, in fact go sit in the sandbox and play, I'm happy with my religion and I don't need someone talking down to me.
Liberals? Lol nice job in the white house, country's a mess, cold war might be unofficially happening again, the President won't listen to anyone but himself and is about as dumb as a brick when it comes to politics. I mean, riding in on a skateboard to the power summit? Really? Then don't get me STARTED on that horrible health care plan that is currently screwing my family over, and the countless others who were waiting months because their systems weren't working.
Oh wait I'm not allowed to say this in a P&R THread? Well boo-*** hoo, if the people in this community can bash my views and I have to sit and take it because I can't opt out of seeing a damn P&R Thread, then Hell I'm going to be saying my peace.
Libtards and others only want to target Christians, they don't care about anything else and want a scapegoat, it just so happens that Christians got drawn for that, and since the zealots making the rest of us look bad are the targets, that stereotypes us -all- You just answered why Christians as a whole are stereo-typed.
The majority shown are uneducated assclowns who can't even subscribe to the actual message the religion is supposed to be spreading, and cherry pick bits and pieces out of the bible to further their own cause.
Hell, most of them aren't even aware of the number of times the holy text as been edited, or just how many scriptures have been removed or added, ignored, or intentionally misinterpreted to spread hate, to destroy and oppress for nigh close to 2 millennia, and so on.
I was born and raised Christian, and see so much *** hypocrisy, even from the moderates.
"Love thy neighbor" but it's ok to hate the *** out of everyone who doesn't follow my religion or religious doctrine.
As a good Christian, you're also taught to "turn the other cheek" and not sink down to the levels of those who would cause you harm, which is again, hypocrisy because of the longstanding tradition of ripping kids from their parents, whipping and beating them until they spoke Enlgish like an "enlightened person", rather than one "the devil's children".
So forgive us non-believers for lumping the majority of the uneducated Christians in with the rest of the uneducated Christians, which perpetuate their own stereotype.
Yeah let me just stop you right there. There's only so much "Turn the other cheek" I can take when my views are being bashed and yet it's wrong to bash another person's views. This is how the other person feels when this forum bashes them, they can't defend themselves because the people will hunt them down to the point they don't want to keep posting. You really think.
I am not perpetrating my own stereotype, hell where I go to university I'm exposed to so many different cultures, it's just when I'm on this forum I'm only exposed to self-righteous *** who think they are all knowing and morally just to just attack Christians.
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By fonewear 2014-05-10 12:11:27
Going to make a thread about gay Atheist fascism. See how that goes.
Need at least one gay fascism thread a day to keep the site going.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:12:12
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Phoenix.Amandarius said: »Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior.
Did I burn a house? Do you think I deserve to be called some uneducated bigot just because my religion happens to be the same? You weren't though.
Sparthos' comment, go look it up and you'll see why I'm so PISSED.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:12:13
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »But nice job on being a stereotypical right wing nut job.
Oh perfectly ok to call me a nutjob just because we think differently. Please keep telling me how I'm the scum of the earth for standing up for honest human beings who are being unjustly put into the stereotype.
Please by all means, tell me what makes it right to judge someone without getting to know them beforehand just because they follow a religion? How is it morally ok to just judge someone? Don't even -THINK- you can take the moral high ground with me, because I've seen how you treat others and how you provoked people to lash back at you in that UW thread. I didn't say you were the scum of the earth, try to actually read what's said next time.
I don't provoke people for a response, don't project yourself unto me.
I don't have a problem with judging people for how they act, morals are subjective anyway.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:13:26
Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:13:36
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Phoenix.Amandarius said: »Destroying someone's livelihood is physically hurting them. We didn't hurt them. We just burned down their house and slashed the tires on their car because we don't like what they think. Destroying a career is far worse than hitting them and equally irrational behavior.
Did I burn a house? Do you think I deserve to be called some uneducated bigot just because my religion happens to be the same? You weren't though.
Sparthos' comment, go look it up and you'll see why I'm so PISSED. I read it, and I don't see why, you're acting like you're persecuted, which is just ridiculous.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:14:01
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me. So the truth triggered you?
They say people can't handle it.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2014-05-10 12:16:00
It's funny and a bit sad when christians think they're persecuted.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:16:38
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me. So the truth triggered you?
They say people can't handle it.
I got pissed because what he said is a straight up lie. I don't hate people IRL, life's too short for crap like that, and tbh it's only when I voiced my thoughts is when everyone jumped in.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:17:32
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me. So the truth triggered you?
They say people can't handle it.
I got pissed because what he said is a straight up lie. I don't hate people IRL, life's too short for crap like that, and tbh it's only when I voiced my thoughts is when everyone jumped in. It isn't though, he wasn't talking about every single one, merely the collective, I'm sorry that your ability to infer is severely lacking.
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:19:26
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me. So the truth triggered you?
They say people can't handle it.
I got pissed because what he said is a straight up lie. I don't hate people IRL, life's too short for crap like that, and tbh it's only when I voiced my thoughts is when everyone jumped in. It isn't though, he wasn't talking about every single one, merely the collective, I'm sorry that your ability to infer is severely lacking.
Oh I can read between the lines fairly well, but tbh it's rather hard to detect emotion on just text alone. If he went "Religious zealots" instead of saying -every- Christian, then I wouldn't care. But when he involves -every- one, then it involves me. Why? Because idk who taught you anything, but when someone is spreading lies about you, you defend yourself.
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By Fenrir.Jinjo 2014-05-10 12:21:25
mix your tears in the holy water at church this is actually about the functionality of violent social structures and how they are reinforced nobody cares about feelings
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2014-05-10 12:22:07
He can't say that but you can say this
Quote: Libtards and others only want to target Christians, they don't care about anything else and want a scapegoat
The hypocrisy.
Can I say typical of christians?? *winks*
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:23:06
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Quote: Sorry Christians, you'll have to evolve your religion beyond hating people for being different and focus on that Christ part. Grow up. Remember, your religion once said slavery was ok.
That right there is what triggered me. So the truth triggered you?
They say people can't handle it.
I got pissed because what he said is a straight up lie. I don't hate people IRL, life's too short for crap like that, and tbh it's only when I voiced my thoughts is when everyone jumped in. It isn't though, he wasn't talking about every single one, merely the collective, I'm sorry that your ability to infer is severely lacking.
Oh I can read between the lines fairly well, but tbh it's rather hard to detect emotion on just text alone. If he went "Religious zealots" instead of saying -every- Christian, then I wouldn't care. But when he involves -every- one, then it involves me. Why? Because idk who taught you anything, but when someone is spreading lies about you, you defend yourself. He didn't though, you're feigning a persecution complex because that's what you want to see with his post, which is nowhere near what he meant.
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By Bismarck.Bloodrose 2014-05-10 12:23:25
Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Bismarck.Bloodrose said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »Ragnarok.Yatenkou said: »How about you shut the *** up? You just labeled every Christian as a hating bigot. I'm sorry, I didn't know I was some uneducated *** who likes to oppress people.
No? I don't?
Just because someone is a Christian Sparth, does not mean they are what you say you are. Most Christians actually don't give a frog's fat ***, it's the religious zealots making the moderate majority look bad, and you just made yourself look ignorant by stating that.
Am I mad? Yeah, that's an insult directed at me, my family, and my friends whom are Christian. Take your crap elsewhere if you're going to hurl *** lies. You've got a lot of religious zealots in your midst, then. Might want to take care of that - I hear if it's left untreated, it gets worse.
Oh it's perfectly alright to bash Christians, but when one honest person who is a Christian tries to stand up for themselves, it turns into a piss kicking here on this website.
Yeah it's bad to be anti-gay, but tbh why is everyone always gunning after Christians and stereotyping them as uneducated, assholeish, oppressive, unreasonable bigots? That drives me up a wall, I could always just take into consideration and do something equal to every other religion/sexuality/political stance.
Gays? Yeah don't care about you, you're getting legalized soon so idc.
Atheists? Yeah also don't care about you, I do care when you bash my views out of nowhere and think I'm in the wrong for defending my views. Can I prove god is there? Uh no, I cannot, that's why it's called 'faith' I don't need you to believe, in fact go sit in the sandbox and play, I'm happy with my religion and I don't need someone talking down to me.
Liberals? Lol nice job in the white house, country's a mess, cold war might be unofficially happening again, the President won't listen to anyone but himself and is about as dumb as a brick when it comes to politics. I mean, riding in on a skateboard to the power summit? Really? Then don't get me STARTED on that horrible health care plan that is currently screwing my family over, and the countless others who were waiting months because their systems weren't working.
Oh wait I'm not allowed to say this in a P&R THread? Well boo-*** hoo, if the people in this community can bash my views and I have to sit and take it because I can't opt out of seeing a damn P&R Thread, then Hell I'm going to be saying my peace.
Libtards and others only want to target Christians, they don't care about anything else and want a scapegoat, it just so happens that Christians got drawn for that, and since the zealots making the rest of us look bad are the targets, that stereotypes us -all- You just answered why Christians as a whole are stereo-typed.
The majority shown are uneducated assclowns who can't even subscribe to the actual message the religion is supposed to be spreading, and cherry pick bits and pieces out of the bible to further their own cause.
Hell, most of them aren't even aware of the number of times the holy text as been edited, or just how many scriptures have been removed or added, ignored, or intentionally misinterpreted to spread hate, to destroy and oppress for nigh close to 2 millennia, and so on.
I was born and raised Christian, and see so much *** hypocrisy, even from the moderates.
"Love thy neighbor" but it's ok to hate the *** out of everyone who doesn't follow my religion or religious doctrine.
As a good Christian, you're also taught to "turn the other cheek" and not sink down to the levels of those who would cause you harm, which is again, hypocrisy because of the longstanding tradition of ripping kids from their parents, whipping and beating them until they spoke Enlgish like an "enlightened person", rather than one "the devil's children".
So forgive us non-believers for lumping the majority of the uneducated Christians in with the rest of the uneducated Christians, which perpetuate their own stereotype.
Yeah let me just stop you right there. There's only so much "Turn the other cheek" I can take when my views are being bashed and yet it's wrong to bash another person's views. This is how the other person feels when this forum bashes them, they can't defend themselves because the people will hunt them down to the point they don't want to keep posting. You really think.
I am not perpetrating my own stereotype, hell where I go to university I'm exposed to so many different cultures, it's just when I'm on this forum I'm only exposed to self-righteous *** who think they are all knowing and morally just to just attack Christians.
Yes, in the same way it was morally just for Christians to every hurtful thing I mentioned, causing mass suicide amongst native americans, brutally beating and whipping black people, using various peoples around the world as slaves and property, or, that the majority of Christians believe that it's still OK to hate gay people, for no other reason, than to show hatred for something they don't understand, which is antithesis to the actual beliefs behind religion itself, rather than the indoctrinated beliefs people swallow because of misleading interpretation.
Just because you're exposed to other cultures, doesn't mean you accept, or understand them. And honestly, at a university, you're going to be exposed to more culturally diverse people, more so than the actual cultures, so get your ***right. While the PPACA is good as a whole, there is no debate that it needs some serious tweaking. The President is obviously better at winning than actually leading. Keep in mind, who he was running against was King Romney, so out of touch with reality, he was planning to sell millions of new jobs to China, while insulting them the whole way.
So yes, you are perpetuating your own stereotype by being ignorant and uneducated.
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By fonewear 2014-05-10 12:24:16
Will this be on the test ?
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By Ragnarok.Yatenkou 2014-05-10 12:26:03
He can't say that but you can say this
Quote: Libtards and others only want to target Christians, they don't care about anything else and want a scapegoat
The hypocrisy.
Can I say typical of christians?? *winks*
Libtards are political, not Christian. It's the truth too, the first things that are said are the people and their religions.
By Jetackuu 2014-05-10 12:27:15
First off, I don't see how anyone is bitching about anyone calling them ignorant an uneducated when they use the term "libtard" I mean, you're basically proving them right.
The misuse of the term "liberal" is bad enough, but that's just taking it to a whole new level of stupidity and sheer ignorance.
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Quote: HGTV is popular with the gays, so more than a few were scratching their heads when the cable channel announced a pilot featuring two brothers, one of whom—David Benham—has distinctly anti-gay views, as Right Wing Watch reported:
Later, Benham told Mefferd that America’s Christian majority must repent for tolerating abortion rights, no-fault divorce, legal pornography, “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation” and the “demonic ideologies” that he says have taken over the education system.
After a backlash on the brothers' Facebook page, HGTV cancelled Flip It Forward, which prompted its own backlash with Fox star Megyn Kelly agreeing with Family Research Counil head Tony Perkins that unlike gay people (!), the rights of Christians aren't as "protected and recognized in this country.” On Thursday, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter suggested this could be a thing and that Americans might perceive HGTV’s decision as a sign of intolerance toward intolerance.
“There is a risk, though, I think, of matching perceived intolerance with more intolerance,” Stelter said. “If you are someone at home who’s looking at this thinking, why are they taking away these brothers' TV show simply because of what they believe in the personal life, the answer—part of the answer to that—is diversity in the media.”
Luckily, NPR media critic Eric Deggans jumped in before the nodding CNN host closed out the segment. He disagreed with Stelter, saying that if the prospective hosts had expressed the same views about African-Americans instead of gays they wouldn’t even be having the discussion, nor would the brothers be able to find another network employer.
- See more at: http://www.frontiersla.com/frontiers-blog/2014/05/09/cnn-media-host-thinks-hgtv-scrapping-anti-gays-risks-matching-intolerance-with-more-intolerance#sthash.ekFzQwFR.dpuf
People should be entitled to their views, regardless of how ignorant they may be. It is when they take action in which it physically harms someone or inhibits their civil liberties that there should be consequences. This is very far from the actions of WBC. I would have liked to see such media coverage of WBC from LGBT non-profs and media outlets...just saying. People need to remember freedom of speech is a two way street, and if you are unwilling to protect that liberty for the ignorant and bigoted then freedom of speech as a concept is nothing but a sham.
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