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- From: mdc@crash.cts.com (Milo D. Cooper)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Your own words, of course != bigot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.165636.21984@crash>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:56:36 GMT
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- In article <C05DqL.9pz@NeoSoft.com> jpsb@NeoSoft.com (Jim Shirreffs) writes:
- -> Howard Black made mession of "hate crimes" agaist gays in this country.
- -> The following are some thoughs:
- ->
- -> Sex crimes represent a moral dilemma for J/C persons such as myself.
-
- Same here.
-
- -> If I feel that homosexual sex is wrong, then how can I condemn "gay
- -> bashing", and other "hate crimes". They are immoral people, they
- -> deserve it. Unless I am willing to accept gays, then I, almost by
- -> definition, am a supporter of the perpetrators of "hate crimes".
- ->
- -> I usually get out of this by claiming that "I didn't do anything" and it
- -> is not "my job" to judge anyone.
- ->
- -> jim shirreffs
-
- Personally, I would not want to be mentioned in the same breath
- as someone like Adolf Hitler, who engaged in notorious "hate crimes"
- against the Jewish, especially since I am a black American, and therefore a
- "minority." That is to say, my friend, that I do not agree that
- disapproval reasonably and logically precedes wanton derision, which is
- what "bashing" is, and which is ultimately useless and which often cul-
- minates in adverse effects. People have a fine record of reacting ad-
- versely to badgering. As a Christian, and, I truly believe, a reasonable
- one, I too am no advocate of homosexuality. However, wrongness of opinion
- deserves civil argument and correction, and no amount of excessive scorn.
- Immorality is often a product of one's honest beliefs, and not of willful
- contradiction to an opponent's doctrines; this is the case with most, if
- not all, homosexual individuals. You will recall that Jesus Christ him-
- self pleaded with God to forgive his persecutors on the basis that they
- actually did not realize what they were doing.
- It is anyone's job to judge others based on his/her ethical val-
- ues. But judgment must be without passion, just how America, a country,
- an idea, founded on Christian principles, was designed to mediate.
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- Milo D. Cooper '92 | 1992 | mdc@crash.cts.com
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