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Originally Posted by Danzig
i think what created the firestorm in some peoples minds was his linking homosexuality to bestiality, etc and it 'morphs out from there'. as tho it's some sort of gateway sin to other things.
my discussion about hate, religion, etc, is part of a broader discussion. i'm sorry that you think i was only discussing phil. i was thinking of westboro, who i mentioned above, tony perkins, my mother in law, etc.
are you sure 'nobody claims' that it's ok to hate based on religion? that's not been my experience, based on what i've seen, read, heard.
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I think the one thing that I didn't take into account is that gay people have a history of being persecuted so they are obviously going to be sensitive to these types of statements. If I have sex with a woman and I hear a guy on television say that is a sin, I'm not going to get mad or say that the statement was hateful. But I don't have a history of being persecuted for having sex with women, so I'm obviously not going to be sensitive about someone calling it a sin.
So I understand where a group like GLAAD is coming from, but I think they have to understand where other people are coming from too. Sure there is a history of bigotry against gay people. But that doesn't mean that Phil Robertson or any other Christian has a hatred of gay people. I think a group like GLAAD does themselves a huge disservice when they start accusing people of beating "hateful". It reminds me of when guys like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton accuse of everyone of being racists. It's not good for their cause. It actually causes a huge backlash, as we've seen in this case.
GLAAD would have been much better off making a measured statement saying something to the effect of, "We are very sensitive to comments like this and although Mr. Robertson probably did not have bad intentions, we are concerned that comments like these could conceivably cause some people to discriminate against gay people. We would like to see Mr Robertson explicitly state that gay people should be accepted and treated like everyone else."
If GLAAD would have made this type of statement, it would have helped their cause and there would not have been such a firestorm and backlash. But instead, they overplayed their hand like a Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton and it totally backfired.