'There is also free speech that you don't agree with. You
are not some sort of "Patriot, fighting for the First Amendment rights
of all Americans" if the only time you get upset about a person's
"rights being trampled" is when it happens to people who think exactly
like you. If you think of the First Amendment when hearing people saying
"Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas," you are very, very
confused. And if the only free speech that you support is speech that
you agree with, that doesn't make you a "patriot." It makes you a
hypocrite. And that's something completely different.'
and....
'This is not religious persecution. I cannot
stress this enough. He did not get suspended for his religious beliefs.
He was suspended because what he said was completely offensive. There
are plenty of Christians (many of my friends, in fact) who believe that
being gay is a sin and marriage should only be between a man and a
woman, yet they could have still answered those questions with love and
humility. Someone might use Bible verses to claim that interracial
relations are an abomination and say, "Anyone who commits the sin of
miscegenation is heading straight to Hell" and call it freedom of
religion, but really... It's just old-school hatred. Hatred is not a
biblical belief.'
Chris Boeskool, blogging about A&E and ducks
You can read the entire post here. It's worth it.
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