The more things change the more things stay the same.

[RedXIII]

During The Great mortality{The Black Plague} they blamed Jews for it,during the Aids crisis they blame us for it. Don't the religious right realize they're repeating what their ancestors did in fact i read that many people during the plague said that it was G-ds curse.

[saltpoint]

1. Scapegoating's an old practice. Invariably an ugly, cruel practice, but

age-old just the same.

There's something about a majority claiming special privilege with their God and using that special status as a moral superiority to lord over others, and in many cases, to blame marginalized people for disease or crop failure, or what have you.

The climate for that scapegoating of lesbians and gays is actively stoked by Bush and other modern-day Republicans.

[darkmaestro019]

2. hello, Nanaki : )

Haven't seen you in an age.

And it seems the RR's entire idea of, cool, or right or whatever IS to repeat exactly the same dumb their ancestors did. They call it "tradition" and they call any less dumb ideas situational ethics, revisionism, sin, heresy....