On Card and Homosexuality

[netmouse]

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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[yarram.livejournal.com]

Just to pick nits, I presume by "the liberal party" you mean the Democratic Party, correct?

The reason I ask is because there are other "liberal" political parties in the USA (e.g. Socialist Party and Green Party), as well as some that don't easily classify into the liberal/conservative continuum (e.g. Libertarian Party).

Mind you, I tend to consider the Democratic Party centrist and the Republican Party quite conservative. To me, the distinction is parallel to Iranian conservatives vs. reformists: they both hold conservative values, it's just that the reformists appear to be liberal when compared to the conservatives! The USA no longer has a large, strong party that I would consider truly "liberal" - the closest there is would be the Green Party, which Nader helped as much as he hindered.

'Nuff said for now... :-)

[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

Liberal and conservative are entirely subjective measures. If not, then what are they to the left and right of? Me? You? Everyone is a centrist when measured against their own internal reference point of what they consider to be correct.

[yuggoth.livejournal.com]

Actually I meant "liberals" in general, which means I should not really have used "party", but it's a Friday and I feel like partying.