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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 07:44 AM
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1. Faith, belief, vitriol, sewing, reaping
I read these words with open mouthed amazement at the lack of understanding on the part of the President. How can he speak against vitriol aimed at him, when he hired, deployed and defended faith based vitriol against the GLBT community during his campaign? Donnie McClurkin and others known for the worst invective imaginable were Obama surrogates. When our community complained about being equated to child killers, prostitutes and thieves, Obama informed us that the speakers of invective were-his words "good, decent and moral people" with whom many people agree. He said he would not apologize for their beliefs nor slanders, and went on to say that such speakers of vitriol would always be welcomed at his table.
No two ways around it, his attitude when he is subject to the vitriol is diametrically opposed to his attitude when the GLBT community is subject to far worse vitriol. This is called hypocrisy, a double standard. Slice it how you will. He defended hate speech against gay people when it helped him. Further, that hate speech was a 'focus on faith' which existed outside the rational. Yet Obama welcomed it, sought it out, hired it and put it up on his platform as his only speaking surrogate at live events.
Just not sure how to tell when invective is bad and when it is bad. Seems like this piece says it is bad when aimed toward Obama, but just fine and dandy when launched by him against gay people.
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