Mark Morford lets go with both barrels

[JohnnyRingo]

Liberals Are So Intolerant!
The Right loves to sling this smug accusation at critics from the Left. Mark Morford has a reply



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Oh, let us be clear. I love diversity, religious pluralism, peace and love and pacifism and good drugs and open-mouthed sensuality, happy to let you believe in any god you like and marry any gender you like and let you love how you will and be in full control of your sex and your body and your mind.

This, to me, is the America worth fighting for. These are the laws I support. Don't believe in abortion? Don't understand gay people? Sexuality make you rashy? Think Harry Potter teaches kids evil and witchcraft? Don't marry a sexy gay witch abortionist. But don't you dare, based on your limited understanding of God and life, make laws declaring that I can't.

But maybe this is the problem, especially here in San Francisco, the World Headquarters of Tolerance, where liberals tend to be so PC and open-minded they merely sigh and shrug when our government and half of the nation move to outlaw everything they stand for, when they openly loathe human rights and try to codify homophobia in the U.S. Constitution and slowly annihilate Roe v. Wade and treat any display of resistance or questioning of the norm the way a dog treats a fire hydrant.

Entire rant: (good one)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/08/10/notes081005.DTL&nl=fix

[bvar22]

1. Oh, I can recommend this for everyone!

Great Rant!!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

2. He so got it

And the "religious right" so get to me. Jesus Christ NEVER tried to change his government. He tried to change people's hearts and minds!

[xchrom]

3. nailed it!

[wli]

4. and this is why Paul Hackett is a success

We are fed up. We're sick of the Demoblican DLC and the endless reichward shift of the "centrists." And the poll numbers show (including exit polls and real election results pre-rigging) the American people are sick of the feigned neocon piety and imposition of theocracy they themselves remain free of the fetters of.

The time for tolerance is over. We can't afford to let them "back off" and push us further down the slippery slopes to fascism once our outrage is blunted with a blatantly staged regime rotation.

Zero tolerance for fascism is the order of the day.