How tolerant

grrrrrr

Yup, polarizing screeds are totally the way to do this.

For 3500 years ( the writing of Leviticus) people of faith have set the standard of tolerance. If bro. Dan wants to blow off a little steam while presenting a factual analysis of what can be the only out come of this fight than I say. GIVE EM HELL DAN-O!!!

Oh, and while your pondering tolerance. you might give a thought as to why a bundle of sticks used to feed a fire and a homosexual are both called a faggot.

ppe, the whole "they're called faggots becuase the oppressors burned teh geighz at the stake!" thing isn't supported by any actual evidence. I'm not sure how enlightening it is to ponder the two definitions of the word, with that in mind.

@ samurai pizza cats, Foolish me I forgot to record the link to the article I read that in so I’ll concede the point. Do you deny that Leviticus calls for the execution of gay people? Or that gay people were killed during the inquisition or various murder sprees in Europe? Or that gays were targeted during the Nazi holocaust? Or that even to this day gay people are being murdered in Jamaica, Iran, Iraq all in the name of religion?
With the bloody history religion has I find it laughable that they call me immoral. None of this touches on anything that Dan Savage posted so lets not hijack his post.

Yeah, there's been a huge amount of homophobic persecution going on for centuries. I just find the "burning times" thing to be kind of silly and willfully ignorant of history.

It's the same situation when you bring up the Leviticus thing (you know Christians were never bound by the laws outline in it, right?). I could walk you (or a fundamentalist) through the relevant passages in Hebrew, explaining exactly why there was never any call for the execution of the gays, but the finer points would be lost to the agendas that have become attached to the text.

My point, I guess, is that such things don't matter in the fucking least. While I agree with Dan that the end of this conflict is inevitably going to end in full rights for sexual minorities (sadly, later than it should), I don't think that it should be a battle of squealing propaganda against squealing propaganda. A sober look back at the founding and history of our country (as shitty as it's sometimes been...) should provide all the rational arguments to right the current situation.