free speech and free thought

delwynmarch delwynmarch at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 9 10:16:57 UTC 2007


susanmcgee wrote:
> I think that some people on the list are not 
> used to being challenged about their beliefs 
> about lesbian and gay people, and about the 
> immorality or abnormality of same gender 
> partnerships.

Del replies:
Talking about me but not to me, hm? But anyway: 
if you think that I am one of those people who 
"are not used to being challenged", you are 
totally and utterly wrong. More wrong than you 
can begin to imagine.

> Why should JKR pander to beliefs (that 
> "homosexuality" is wrong, or unnatural, or 
> unGodlike) that don't match hers?

I'll repeat what I have already said countless
times: she DID pander to those beliefs!

> She's experiencing a little of what lesbians 
> and gay men experience daily -- the barrage of 
> hatred and ignorance and intolerance that lies 
> just beneath the surface of our veneer of civilization.

And which isn't directed only at gays and lesbians. 
In fact, people of my religion in America are 
attacked just as much by Fundamentalist Evangelicals 
than gays and lesbians. Some even see us as worse than 
gays and lesbians, and create ministries whose sole 
goal is to harass and oppress people of my religion.

> Thank goodness most people believe that beliefs 
> CAN be changed...and that we can learn and grow 
> through experience, through understanding, 
> through compassion and through love.

You haven't shown much of that to ME, you know. 
Where is your understanding of my position? Where 
is your compassion for people who have a problem 
with homosexuality and who struggle to reconcile 
their belief with an attitude of love and 
compassion to actual gays and lesbians? Where is 
your compassion towards "bigots"?

> Some day we'll live in a world where who you 
> love is not grounds for being hated or 
> discriminated against.

I sure hope NOT, I'd hate to live in a world 
where, say, pedophiles are not being 
discriminated against.

Del





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