On Card and Homosexuality

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brendand's comments On a footnote to an essay that Homosexuality is Sinful (and Homosexuals Hypocritical), by Orson Scott Card should be widely read.

The concept that liberals are narrow-minded knee-jerk reactionists who can't tolerate other opinions is getting all too much play these days.

Brendan, I suggest you send your comments directly to Mr. Card. There's a form on Hatrack River

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But that's just the thing - poor behavior on the part of liberals is overwhelmingly outnumbered by instance of fine, reasonable behavior - which of course doesn't get covered by the press. Poor behavior isn't *rampant* - it's exceptional. What the party hasn't mastered is a way to react to that behavior or to counter the right-wing description of it.

I really don't hold the Democratic party responsible for the behavior of unruly individuals who have just reached their limit in terms of tolerating Ann Coulter. Then again, I don't think Ann Coulter should be tolerated - I think she should be lambasted and disagreed with every time she says something erroneous or misleading, which is ALL THE TIME, and I think people should protest any media outlet that carries her voice. -Not because she doesn't have the right to speak her piece, but because she doesn't have the right to pretend to be a reasoned commentator and I don't think she has any right to have the influential position that she obviously does.

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Well, whether that kind of bad behavior is everywhere or if it's just the media playing it up, it does not really matter because it fails to make any sort of point anyway. He did not respond with well-reasoned counter-arguments, he acted like a moron and got hauled away so he could make headlines. Those kinds of activities give the conservative party strength, because, whether it's an extreme expression or more of what's becoming the norm (and I still think it's more the latter than the former), it's still "them not us."

I'm not sure what can give someone the right to be influential other than the fact that they are influential. Power is not based on one's objective "correctness".