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Bluenorthwest

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12. I say boycott, but people who boycott Rush while praising the Pope are clearly saying anti gay trash
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 06:12 PM
Jan 2015

talk is perfectly acceptable to them, just not Rush. So Rush is very bad, of course, and we boycott him for saying nasty mean things about others. But we also honor Rick Warren as we did, just a couple of weeks after he said extremely nasty,mean things about LGBT people. When we objected, we were told we 'wanted a pony' and this Party bowed it's head and prayed with a man who had just now finished calling me a criminal and much worse. So Rush is very bad. So he is boycotted. Does this then mean that Warren, speaker of hate, is good because he is not boycotted and instead rewarded? It sort of follows that it does.
So while I know everyone loves the Pope, I find his words extremely offensive toward LGBT people. Extremely. He is celebrated. Not boycotted. Says I am disordered, our relationships disfigure God he now says. This is vile. He is celebrated on DU.
So I'm just saying. If the things said by Warren and by the Pope warrant praise and reward, and apparently they do, then to boycott Rush for similarly denigrating speech it is worth noting that Rick Warren got the opposite of a boycott for calling gay people criminals, pedophiles and equating our relationships to incest. That means something. It's not nothing to allow the verbal abuse of some by some while pretending to be champions of truth and kind speech for all.
'If you use foul words to denigrate others and play dishonest politics, we the Democrats will either boycott you or hire you as official Presidential surrogate, depending."

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