Another teabagger shooting spree...oh wait...

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You just cannot read things honestly if they have an opposing viewpoint.

Explain how this is not racist if this is what you are talking about.

I was not terribly interested in finding out details about the FRC itself (although I wouldn't mind it particularly), I was interested in why people were objecting to it. People were saying, repeatedly, things with as much information content as 'they're all jerks'. What they weren't saying is why they're all jerks.

To be fair, they didn't say the SPLC inspired this attack, but that them being the victims of this attack makes the SPLC's labeling false. Which is obviously ridiculous since they don't just consider homosexuality unnatural, they want it outlawed. Sounds pretty hateful to me.

Thank you for not automatically assuming the worst.

If you're talking about the potential argument about interracial marriage, then yes, I was playing devil's advocate. I practically said as much in the post itself, so it actually disturbs me a bit that you're the only one who noticed that.


Are you saying that you would assume that anyone with that theory is a racist, or are you saying that having that theory, by itself, constitutes racism? If it's the second, then I think we may have different assumption about the definition of the word 'racism'.


I was not terribly interested in finding out details about the FRC itself (although I wouldn't mind it particularly), I was interested in why people were objecting to it. People were saying, repeatedly, things with as much information content as 'they're all jerks'. What they weren't saying is why they're all jerks.

@iBlockhead: I'm sorry, I don't have a specific source for you. I remember hearing about it on a news article about 3 or 4 years ago. There was a guy refusing to do something (a marriage license maybe?) and getting in legal trouble over it, since he didn't actually have the authority to do that. The hypothetical argument I presented was what the guy said as well as I can remember from a couple of years ago. That's about all I can remember about it.

You've said this before and I would appreciate it if you would stop. It's an insult, and it is based on assumptions you're making about me and how you think I think.[/quote[

When I saw the news article on it several years ago, I concluded that the person involved was racist. The argument that he made, at least how I remember it, was not. What I presented was a hypothetical situation, regardless of whether it had elements drawn from my memory of what I had heard about some actual event.

@Kraichgauer: This is going to be my last post in this thread, since I'm tired of everyone insulting me. If you want to continue our part of the conversation, send me a PM, and I'll be happy to do that. If not, that's fine too.