In 2007, national news crews descended on the area after a local man, James Ford Seale, a reported Ku Klux Klan member, was convicted on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 deaths of two black men. The two 19-year-olds, according to prosecutors, were abducted near Meadville; they were beaten in the national forest before being drowned in the Mississippi River, with an engine block, iron weights and railroad ties pulling them into the depths.
Sounds like your kinda town, Wondy!
Non-sequitor. Completely unrelated to what I commented on.
He is drawing a proper, logical analogy.
Racism = hated of people of different ethnicity
Homophobia = hatred of people of different gender preference.
Racism / homophobia are both underpinned by hatred.
Heard a good song the other day which seemed to sum this up.
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that's not important
No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it
One of the things which turned me against you back in the day, Dave, was this idea you have that homosexuality is a moral wrong.
I saw simply accepting that or excusing it as akin to tolerating racism. I could not be quiet and be true to my central core belief that all are equal, and that if gender preference does me and mine no harm, then that preference is an inalienable liberty-based right in a democracy. I still cannot tolerate it, many years later.
If someone starting, even in the most polite manner, talking about blacks or Asians or Hispanics in a derogatory way, I would not tolerate that for a moment. And so, I can't tolerate deliberately misinformed commentary about gays.
I know I can't change your mind, and I have no real desire to do so. But I can say, in case someone else should ever read this and think the rest of us sat back and tolerated what you've written, that your views on this are foolish and are fueled by misunderstanding and hatred.
