When the same people who go into full outrage mode over stories like this, start reacting the same when they see Hollywood make fun of Christians, then I'll believe they have some credibility. Until then, outrage like this is nothing more than a hypocritical stance born out of the personal desire to feel good about one's self, or just a want to be liked.
If you believe there is a right not be offended, the you need to apply it all things deemed offensive to all people with equal fervor.
I thank you for assuming I'm not Christian, or that gay people aren't Christian. It's that type of remark that is completely not open to dialogue which is the problem with this country, and also why threads like this get sidetracked. There's no reason to be off-topic. Religion wasn't mentioned once in this thread prior to you.
Ummm I never called out anybodies faith. I just made a point about the double standard in this country. I'm also not turning this into religious debate as another said.
I'll use another example of the double standard. Where was the outrage when Rex Ryan was being made fun of for his foot fetish? Nobody defended him or demanded apologies.
The overall point I'm making is there seems to be selective outrage and apology demands.
If people are going to seize the moral high ground, they should be.prepared to be challenged.
The Rex Ryan comparison is terrible:
A. There were tons of people who said "no big deal" or even said "hey, good for them to have that level of attraction and chemistry."
And, much more importantly,
B. The discussion around Ryan generally consisted of what would variably be described as teasing, curiosity, etc., while gay people fall under public criticism its generally as worse than beasts, pedophiles, going to hell, subhuman, inhuman, responsible for natural disasters, etc. Its a little different, and you should know that.
Secondly, Christians as a peoplenare just not victims in this country, hence the "double standard." Like it or not, until things are equal, the dominant class is "allowed" to be critiqued. And, generally, the white christian male agenda or perspective is still the default one. It is changing, slowly, but people who see white/christian/male general victimization are NOT seeing subjugation, but are rather witnessing the fall from assumed/implicit/default dominance or privilege back toward (but definitley not yet reached) equal say. And its painful-no one likes to give up stuff to which they are accustomed- but going from super dominant to kind of dominant still is not victimhood.
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