Christians sue for right to be intolerate

["Sixhits"]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6204444.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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ATLANTA — Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

With her lawsuit, the 22-year-old student joins a growing campaign to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment. The religious right aims to overturn a broad range of common tolerance programs: diversity training that promotes acceptance of gays and lesbians, speech codes that ban harsh words against homosexuality, anti-discrimination policies that require college clubs to open their membership to all.

The Rev. Rick Scarborough, a leading evangelical, frames the movement as the civil rights struggle of the 21st century. "Christians," he said, "are going to have to take a stand for the right to be Christian."
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My religion says fundamentalist Christians should be forced to have gay sex and have abortions.  Shouldn't they be forced to do what my bigoted point of view demands?

[Guest]

Its a shame christianity tolerates the stupidity that comes out of the mouths of those like Ms Malhotra.

[*DAMN Hazard]

*Shakes head* I really don't understand people. Isn't the golden rule in the bible "Treat others how you want to be treated?" At least that is what I was taught. So why do people who claim to be good religious folk encourage intolerance? Do they not realize if they gain the right to be intolerate towards other people they will also become victims of their own idiotic lawsuit? I really can't grasp how someone who claims to be religious wastes their time pushing for an issue like this when they should be doing good and promoting peace among different peoples.

I wonder how long we as a nation will let religion divide us

[Fridge!]

Man, I really do hate religion with a very strong passion.

I hate anything that proliferates or exemplifies the inability of the average human to act upon, and to comprehend reason and rationality.

["Sixhits"]

I can only think these funamentalists are not good Christians.  Too many of my Christian friends are... um... normal human beings for these fools to be representative.  Time for the Religious Left to smite these fuckers.

[PandabeaR]

Man, I really do hate religion with a very strong passion.

I hate anything that proliferates or exemplifies the inability of the average human to act upon, and to comprehend reason and rationality.

Hope you dont feel that way about faith.

[(SiX)Sheixhundt]

1. Couldnt have said it better Panda..thanks for sparing them one of my uber-posts.

2. Religion is nothing.

3. The only important stuff in the bible is printed in red.
     Its an entirely different book when read that way.

4. If youve found some outrage in the above article, realize that youve been tricked. What a brilliant way to get the average liberal to argue AGAINST free speech, than to throw a christian in the mix somewhere. No better way to fool you into arguing AGAINST one of your cornerstones...the right to free expression and religious tolerance. I mean what sort of American would want to PROTECT the freedom of expression of a Fucking Christian....right?  Suckers.

Protect the gays, the wiccans, the deviants, the indigo children, the school shooters, criminals and their poor upbringings, the pot smokers, the X users, fetish porn producers, but NOT THOSE GODAMNED FILTHY INTOLERANT CHRISTIANS..right?

And i too hate anything (like the anti-christian advocacy) that prevents or stunts the HYPOCRITICAL ability of the average (leftist) human to act upon (ie..to legislate one-sided tolerance), and comprehend reason and rationality...Becuase protecting EVERYONEs speech would just be silly. I mean where does it say that YOU (o great advocaters of tolerance) have to be tolerant of Alternate belief systems?...right?

[Guest]

....protecting people from harassment is a terrible thing for a society especially if it infringes on your "rights".

As long as i continue to have the "right" to harass the elderly for being old, harass war veterans for getting special benefits then may god bless our "rights".

["Sixhits"]

This isn't an issue of tolerating someone's speech - it's an issue of someone demanding the law be changed so as to enable her bigotry while hiding behind a religion.  She is seeking the veil of tolerance in order to undercut tolerance en total.

People can say whatever they want - that's free speach.  I don't want this woman silenced.  I just don't think the law should be changed to suit her point of view.  if that means she can't call her neighbors faggots without getting a strike, then good.  This isn't an issue of persecuting Christians - real Christians don't spend their time thinking up ways to validate their hate - but a case of a fundamentalist massaging her persecution complex.

What is the difference between her and a white supremacist demanding the right to face no reproach when denoucing the non-white races on campus?  Just because she hides her bigotry behind Christ's beard doesn't change the fact that she is a bigot; that she is no better than a nazi or islamofacist.  No more should we change the rules for her than for the KKK or Al Queda or any other hate group.

And as I mentioned before, fundamentalists like her are not representitive of the Christians I know. 

Another thing: in my view, fundamentalists like her are the enemies of our nation.  They seek to destroy what this nation by turning it's laws against itself.  Fundamentialists like her would happyily fly planes into buildings if they thought it swing things their way.  This is because people like her won't be happy til they can murder the people they hate in the streets. 

[*DAMN Hazard]

It's an issue that can't be fixed by any law. We should just stop raising assholes who hate each other then we won't need to waste our time arguing over my right to call Jesus a dickface.

Religion was created to control people and our stupidity is helping it succeed. Maybe die hard Christians should focus a little more on acceptance than "compellilng" it's followers to hate people.

Live and let live. Honestly who gives a fuck as long as everyone is happy? And to those who do give a fuck we will build you your own little island and I shall effectionately name it asshole island where you will run and frolic and play.

I can't understand how people think that way.

[Fridge!]

Man, I really do hate religion with a very strong passion.

I hate anything that proliferates or exemplifies the inability of the average human to act upon, and to comprehend reason and rationality.

Hope you dont feel that way about faith.

About religious faith in general, yes I do, absolutely.  It is inherently irrational, and yet people choose the inherently irrational over other more supported, more logical, more parsimonious beliefs, and don't realize that their beliefs are less rational.  Go ahead and believe in what you want, but understand the nature of your beliefs, that maintaining them over more supported beliefs will always be irrational.

[BTs_FahQ2]

Go ahead and believe in what you want, but understand the nature of your beliefs, that maintaining them over more supported beliefs will always be irrational.

Fridge, that is the basis of absolute faith. you have it despite the fact of absolute proofs provided in what is considered this reality, world, state or whatever.  What the shit are you exactly trying to say here?

[Ethion]

The human kind has always thought of something supernatural.
Some bigger being and so on.

It's been like this since we first woke up.

[Fridge!]

Go ahead and believe in what you want, but understand the nature of your beliefs, that maintaining them over more supported beliefs will always be irrational.

Fridge, that is the basis of absolute faith. you have it despite the fact of absolute proofs provided in what is considered this reality, world, state or whatever.  What the shit are you exactly trying to say here?

Only that that is the reason why I hate religion so much, and you seem to agree so why are you taking such a hostile stance?

[BTs_FahQ2]

no hostilities at all, you are just reiterating something in elongated verbate that is already stated in the word "faith" itself. So therefore your post did nothing but consume space without anything being said.

[(SiX)Sheixhundt]

I no longer have faith in air.
Cannot see it, taste it, or touch it.

Although I can clearly see its effects on things,
I am unable to directly observe air.
Therefore, believing that air exists is illogical.
Some scientists believe it..but thats just their opinion.

Good bye air.

Ever notice that it's all the tolerant, enlightened people running around
(in the midst of a tolerance discussion) saying they hate shit..like religion?

Thats better'n cartoons right there....

[Fridge!]

no hostilities at all, you are just reiterating something in elongated verbate that is already stated in the word "faith" itself. So therefore your post did nothing but consume space without anything being said.

Yes, but tell religious people that their faith is irrational and they get up in arms.  They don't get it, and that is what drives me nuts.  For example, look at Sheik's most recent post where because I have stated that faith is irrational, he is now trying to argue that the having faith in God's existence is equally as rational as believing in air.  See what I mean?

[Fridge!]

I no longer have faith in air.
Cannot see it, taste it, or touch it.

Although I can clearly see its effects on things,
I am unable to directly observe air.
Therefore, believing that air exists is illogical.
Some scientists believe it..but thats just their opinion.

Good bye air.

Ever notice that it's all the tolerant, enlightened people running around
(in the midst of a tolerance discussion) saying they hate shit..like religion?

Thats better'n cartoons right there....

Air is tangible actually.  I don't know what you're talking about, but last time I checked air was a gaseous substance composed primarily of nitrogen and oxegyn.  So basically what you're arguing is that religious beliefs are equally as rational as believing that nitrogen and oxygen exist.

[(SiX)Sheixhundt]

So basically what you're arguing is that religious beliefs are equally as rational as believing that nitrogen and oxygen exist.

yes.


youre not as dumb as i thought.

[Fridge!]

So basically what you're arguing is that religious beliefs are equally as rational as believing that nitrogen and oxygen exist.

yes.


youre not as dumb as i thought.

Yes, well we can observe oxygen and nitrogen directly, we can actually see them through microscopes.