This is my response to Russell which was lost when the LUV server was down. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Scott <luv@inoz.net> Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Opposing marriage equality To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> Cc: luv-talk@luv.asn.au On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Michael Scott <luv@inoz.net> wrote:
You've made a generalised judgement about "those people", you've stretched death threats against a 14yo actor
That's death threats against a 5yo actress.
Actor/Actress. Who's being sexist now?
for a show which includes lesbian partners to your subject title "Opposing marriage equality", and YOUR link refers to one of "YOUR" people actually shooting someone!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council
# In 2010, the FRC paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they # described as "Res.1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-homosexual promotion" in a # lobbying disclosure report.[38] The US House of Representatives resolution # condemned the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill,[39] a bill which, among other # things, would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for # sexual relations between persons of the same sex
# The Southern Poverty Law Center designated the FRC as a hate group in the # Winter 2010
# A shooting incident outside the FRC headquarters in 2012
I've quoted the relevant sections of the Wikipedia page above.
Relevant to whom?
After the FRC spent a lot of money lobbing in favor of the death penalty for gay people in Uganda they were listed as a hate group. After that a FRC security guard was shot.
Shooting a security guard is the wrong thing to do and the shooter is serving jail time for it. Causing people to be killed by unjust laws in Uganda is also the wrong thing to do.
I couldn't agree more. You've generalised about ALL people who disagree with same sex marriage, because some nut jobs made death threats against a young actor. A nut job shoots a security guard outside a FRC building, and you don't see the irony? Should I be worried about YOU shooting me because of my beliefs? Do you believe that I would make death threats against somebody ASSOCIATED with a TV show, because the TV show had a same-sex couple? YOU'RE drawing that line.