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I made a calm statement. You called it BS, without proof. You could have demanded that I provide evidence to back up my contentions, but you did not. Perhaps, you knew that I had the evidence ready to spring on you. Otherwise, I would have never piped up.

I thought I laid out my case rather well, but I can see three or four places where it could be logically attacked. You did not choose a logical attack, but a mere denial. That is rather weak–pathetic.

Regards,
Peter H.

And once again, our board leftist demonstrates quite nicely how anyone who dares express a difference of opinion is immediately quashed, insulted, and demeaned by “tolerant” leftists like himself.

They don’t even recognize they’re doing it.

Regards,
Peter H.

Regards,
Peter H.

To me, a prime explanation for why conservatives tend not to attack liberals (verbally, attacking their property, etc.) is because we respect privacy and good manners generally. Privacy is scorned by the left, despite all their platitudes, and the proof is their overt verbal attacks and physical threats. For them, no one is allowed privacy – the privacy of thought, of belief, of ideology. They have to challenge, in order to categorize and then either praise as comrade or scorn as enemy. Who starts political discussions and fights? It is almost always lefties. Most conservatives I know never bring the subject up (certainly not at work or in social situations). It’s not just that it starts fights we don’t want; it’s also just plain rude.

As for gays, plenty of conservatives have gay friends, relatives, children, etc. It’s ridiculous to say we hate gays. We by and large want to live and let live but also want intruders to “get offa my lawn” (to quote the ideology of FredHeads as defined on RedState). The real tragedy is that gays are used and abused by the left to advance an agenda that is not designed to benefit gays so much as it is designed to destroy custom, civility, gentility, morality, privacy – all things despised by the left (Alinsky again). Gays are tools to the left, as are all groups as defined by the grievance industry. Gays (and women, and blacks, and basically everyone except straight, white males) who go off the reservation by being conservative are traitors, apostates, worthy of projecting all the loathing and excoriation the left can muster.

The liberals I work with stated straight out they would never vote for a Mormon. I’m not Mormon and I was offended. They whisper rudely about gay and black employees and propose that high level female managers got there on their backs. The racism, sexism and homophobia on the left is in their chromosomes. It’s truly amazing, but when you view and hear the constant hate, it’s undeniable. They seem to be miserable, self-hating people and thus have to project it onto their ideological enemies in order to feel superior.

Sorry for the long post.

I have lived in several blue states that get poor “return” for their federal tax dollars. Merely living in these states did not prove that I cared more about my fellow man.

You are exactly on target.

It was entirely expected that left wingers would constitute the great weight of your hate mail.

On our side, I hope to see even more inclusiveness and tolerance. Let’s hope that more straight conservatives come around to the idea that gays are our natural allies, cherishing individual freedom and appreciating how wonderful this country is.

best regards,
Jude in Houston

Guess that’s why, while I have all sorts of “hang-ups” about the gay lifestyle in general, I’ve been friends with a number of gay individuals over the years and would support them to the bitter end!

If you would also be good if you do that for yourself and your “allies”, you would see that in the end, it’s exactly the same. I’m not doubting anyone’s personal experiences since the majority who post here are conservative I wouldn’t expect to see many stories of hatred from the right.

“Christian conservaties welcome gays in their congregations, and generally don’t care what you do in your bedrooms and will accept you for who you are. You are free to think and do as you please until you start demanding that THEY think and do as YOU please.”

That’s a blanket statement that is in many if not most cases NOT true. You are free to think and do as you please as long as you keep it hidden. “Repentant” homosexuals are welcome but openly gay “active” homosexuals are not. If they only way you are welcomed is if you hide your life, then you’re not really welcome. Sure there are many churches that fit your description and my personal experience has been mostly positive but it is wrong to whitewash the truth. For many Christians, acknowledging your sexual orientation and considering it good and nothing to be ashamed of IS “flaunting” and forcing it in people’s faces. In reality though if you could take an honest look, most gays/liberals do not claim that ALL Christians hate gays.

“Both Smoking and Homosexuality shortens people’s lives. Before HIV broke out, homosexuals had an average life expectancy of 52 when it was 70 for a heterosexual male” Every Homosexual, who I have known, has been unhappy.”

Pure BS! One can truthfully make the claim that promiscuity shortens people’s lives but only those brainwashed by the Paul Cameron school of pseudo-science will say what you just did. Your last sentence only proves that you know a bunch of unhappy people, not that homosexuals as a group are unhappy.

did it ever occur to you that it is because fewer people live in those states and yet they still have to maintain freeways, federal and state infrastructure and other federal programs. If there are only a million people in Idaho and they still have to maintain an interstate freeway and large swaths of public land, that whole per capita thing becomes and issue.

But I found your point interesting in that it just seems so funny of a thing to complain about on this thread. Those dam* flyover people. White trash on welfare, all of them. Good thing you are so much better and smarter than those welfare receiving red state bigots.