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Evangelicals confuse ‘freedom’ with free rein to insult others

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Moore and Burchill share the same sort of bully mind set as Evangelicals who piss and moan about how pushing back against their bullying is infringing upon their freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech means those people you bully have the right to punch back.

From LGBTQ Nation:  http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/evangelicals-confuse-freedom-with-free-rein-to-insult-others/


Tuesday, January 15, 2013

For fifty years, Bob Jones University, in Greenville, S.C., prohibited interracial dating and Bob Jones Jr. once claimed that Catholicism was a “satanic counterfeit” of fundamentalist Christianity.

Despite the ugly rhetoric and vile policies, Republican candidates regularly flocked to the school and groveled for its endorsement. The GOP luminaries who appeared at the university include Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, and Bob Dole.

This ignoble political ritual ended in 2000 after presidential candidate George W. Bush was excoriated for appearing at the school.

In 1983, Bob Jones University lost its tax-exempt status over its dating rules and argued in court, “God intended segregation of the races and that the Scriptures forbid interracial marriage.” However, the media firestorm over the Bush speech forced Bob Jones III to announce on CNN’s Larry King Live that it was reversing its bigoted policy.

Over time, so-called traditional values can come to be seen as valueless traditions. While the transformation of attitudes can take decades, the actual policy change itself can seem abrupt. Bush was simply following in the footsteps of others, but failed to realize America was walking down a different path.

The same can be said about last week’s uproar over the removal of Rev. Louie Giglio from President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony, after Think Progress discovered that he had delivered a toxic anti-gay sermon in the mid-90s.

A few notable nuggets from Giglio’s talk:

Continue reading at:  http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/evangelicals-confuse-freedom-with-free-rein-to-insult-others/

See Also The Guardian UK:  It saddens me that supporting freedom makes me an opponent of equality

Suzanne Moore is totally puzzled that a regular radical feminist punching bag turned around and hit back.

Get used to it Transsexual and Transgender people are a minority people and we are tired of being the punch lines for bigoted people who are trying to be funny.



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