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Originally posted by Michael Hardner:
[b]This phrase - religious nutjobs - is intolerant and shouldn't be used on a progressive site, in my opinion....[/b]
Oh, I'm sorry. From now on, I'll call religious book censors "religious fuckwads".
Does that make you feel better? And here, I'll type really, really slowly so that hopefully the point will be understood. Not all religious people are religious nutjobs or religious fuckwads. Only the ones who ban books because of their religion. And teach children that people from other religions are going to hell. And lobby against birth control and condoms because of their religion. And try to control women's bodies because of their religion. And are homophobic because they think God hates fags.
Do you do those things because of your religion? No? Then I didn't mean you. I meant the other ones. The fuckwads. And the nutjobs.
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Tolerance means tolerating intolerance.
What a pile of horseshit. I don't tolerate any religious fuckwad trying to tell me what I can do with my body, or using public funds to ban books or teach kids to hate gays and discriminate against women. That's not tolerance, that's being a doormat.
[ 26 November 2007: Message edited by: Michelle ]