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Originally Posted by John Scott
Beautiful statement. I love it. So you think, as a Liberal, that people should not have the right to like or dislike certain practices. I love it. The mind police.
The point of tolerance is not to like everybody, but to not force people to like something. I can be perfectly within my rights to not like somebody or some group. But tolerance dictates that I do not force them to act inline with my own rules. I don't like marriage, but I am not going to cut off the heads of those people who marry. I don't like people who listen to heavy metal, but I am not going to chop off their right hands. That is tolerance.
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There's a big difference between you and George Bush. One of you is the president of the US and needs to set an example for Americans as their leader, the other is not the president so it doesn't matter so much for them.
And, it wouldn't be so bad if GWB were scared of homosexuality and that's where it ended, but, as Ferre has pointed out, that is not the case. He is letting his fear of homosexuality dictate public policy on marriage and he is hiding behind the bible to do it. His very definition for marriage (you know, the one he has repeated ad infinitum) is the union between a man and a woman.
He may not like homosexuals, and that is his right, but he is charged with the responsibility of serving them. You know the game of politics. It would be stupid of him to even let on that he is afraid of homosexuality, but, then again, when has he shown that he is brilliant?