Comments on: Proposition Hate http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/ Website of Joshua McGee Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:19:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48963 Joshua (Site Owner) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:59 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48963 <i>As evidenced in Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream that someday everyone who disagrees with me will be dead” speech.</i> How did that work out for him, Mike? Did most Klan members sit down to meals with children of color, or did most of them die? As evidenced in Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream that someday everyone who disagrees with me will be dead” speech.

How did that work out for him, Mike?  Did most Klan members sit down to meals with children of color, or did most of them die?

]]> By: Bob Mike http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48960 Bob Mike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:26:14 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48960 As evidenced in Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream that someday everyone who disagrees with me will be dead" speech. As evidenced in Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream that someday everyone who disagrees with me will be dead” speech.

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48959 Joshua (Site Owner) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:21:38 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48959 <i>I was just selfishly hoping that he’d live long enough to see the world move past hate because it would mean that I’d likely live long enough to see it, too</i> To increase the likelihood of that, you should probably decrease the amount of time you spend wallowing in tar pits. Oh wait, was that you or <i>dinosaurs</i>? One of you thought that "Maybe, just maybe, it's chocolate pudding." (Can't find that wonderful comic online -- discussing the <i>real</i> reason the dinosaurs went extinct. <i>C'est dommage</i>.) I was just selfishly hoping that he’d live long enough to see the world move past hate because it would mean that I’d likely live long enough to see it, too

To increase the likelihood of that, you should probably decrease the amount of time you spend wallowing in tar pits.

Oh wait, was that you or dinosaurs?  One of you thought that “Maybe, just maybe, it’s chocolate pudding.”

(Can’t find that wonderful comic online — discussing the real reason the dinosaurs went extinct.  C’est dommage.)

]]> By: Bob Mike http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48958 Bob Mike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:17:10 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48958 I hardly think that it's devil's advocate to say that a party is totally wrong, but that I hope that he or she lives long enough to see that they were incorrect. Also, I said that I strongly disliked him and that him being "crushed" was nearly as good, which isn't exactly cheerleading for him. The fact of the matter is that he wouldn't be the first person to come around on the gay rights issue, and he's in a position to be a powerful force for good if he did. Maybe I was just feeling generous to the old man because I recently rewatched <I>In the Eyes of Tammy Faye</I>, and it left me hopeful for the potential of people with whom I disagree to move past hateful dogma, rather than just die. Or maybe I was just selfishly hoping that he'd live long enough to see the world move past hate because it would mean that I'd likely live long enough to see it, too. I hardly think that it’s devil’s advocate to say that a party is totally wrong, but that I hope that he or she lives long enough to see that they were incorrect. Also, I said that I strongly disliked him and that him being “crushed” was nearly as good, which isn’t exactly cheerleading for him. The fact of the matter is that he wouldn’t be the first person to come around on the gay rights issue, and he’s in a position to be a powerful force for good if he did.

Maybe I was just feeling generous to the old man because I recently rewatched In the Eyes of Tammy Faye, and it left me hopeful for the potential of people with whom I disagree to move past hateful dogma, rather than just die. Or maybe I was just selfishly hoping that he’d live long enough to see the world move past hate because it would mean that I’d likely live long enough to see it, too.

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48950 Joshua (Site Owner) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:38:13 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48950 Man, and I thought <i>I</i> like playing devil's advocate. "The human body is mostly H<sub>2</sub>O." Mike, go! ;-) Man, and I thought I like playing devil’s advocate.

“The human body is mostly H2O.”  Mike, go!  ;-)

]]> By: Bob Mike http://www.mcgees.org/2008/10/21/proposition-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-48948 Bob Mike Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:42 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1232#comment-48948 I don't much like James Dobson. In fact, I strongly dislike him, since he's made it clear that he thinks that just about everything that I find enjoyable in life is the root of all evil (my mother listened to a lot of Focus on the Family when I was a kid, which means that <I>I</I> listened to a lot of Focus on the Family when I was a kid). Having said that, I hope that he's not terminally ill. I hope that he lives long enough to see that he was wrong. I want him to see the day when it becomes undeniably apparent that eliminating discrimination from our law books strengthens our society rather than weakens it. If he lives long enough, maybe he'll see that gay people aren't out to undermine families, but that they want families of their own. I'd like for him to see these things, and become a better person. At the same time, if he sees these things and it crushes him, that's almost as good. I don’t much like James Dobson. In fact, I strongly dislike him, since he’s made it clear that he thinks that just about everything that I find enjoyable in life is the root of all evil (my mother listened to a lot of Focus on the Family when I was a kid, which means that I listened to a lot of Focus on the Family when I was a kid).

Having said that, I hope that he’s not terminally ill. I hope that he lives long enough to see that he was wrong. I want him to see the day when it becomes undeniably apparent that eliminating discrimination from our law books strengthens our society rather than weakens it. If he lives long enough, maybe he’ll see that gay people aren’t out to undermine families, but that they want families of their own.

I’d like for him to see these things, and become a better person. At the same time, if he sees these things and it crushes him, that’s almost as good.

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