Can you get called a fag in my town? Yes, you can can also get called names by passing drivers in San Francisco or Berkeley. The world will never be perfect. So you're trying to claim that the extent of GLBT bashing in today's world amounts to nothing more than a little name calling? Might I suggest you crawl out from under your rock and do a little research? Does the name Matthew Shepard ring a bell? How about Brandon Teena? Danny Overstreet, JR Warren, PFC Barry Winchell, Billy Jack Gaither or Bill Clayton?
And you claim I'm guilty of "slippery slope theology". You're quite wrong. Nothing I suggested was anything that has not been demanded by the Religious Right, or even American politicians who are members of the Religious Right.
First they seek to ban gay marriage.
Then they seek to ban laws that protect gays from discrimination.
Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.
Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.
With her lawsuit, the 22-year-old student joins a growing campaign to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment. The religious right aims to overturn a broad range of common tolerance programs: diversity training that promotes acceptance of gays and lesbians, speech codes that ban harsh words against homosexuality, anti-discrimination policies that require college clubs to open their membership to all.
The Rev. Rick Scarborough, a leading evangelical, frames the movement as the civil rights struggle of the 21st century. "Christians," he said, "are going to have to take a stand for the right to be Christian." Full ArticleFinally, their most radical members want homosexuality to be a death-penalty crime.
Ohio candidate for U.S. Senate wants gays dead
When Iraq war veteran and same-sex marriage supporter Paul Hackett dropped out of Ohio's Democratic race for the U.S. Senate last month, he was replaced by truck driver Merrill Keiser Jr., who says gays should get the death penalty. In an interview with the Sandusky Register, Keiser, who filed for candidacy within days of Hackett's withdrawal, said he wouldn't be against making homosexuality a felony punishable by the death penalty. http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid27548.asp">Full Article
And don't use that patronizing tone with me ever again.