New subject: Fwd: Opposing marriage equality

22 Nov 2014

This is my response to Russell which was lost when the LUV server was down.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Scott &lt;luv(a)inoz.net&gt;
Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Opposing marriage equality
To: Russell Coker &lt;russell(a)coker.com.au&gt;
Cc: luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Russell Coker &lt;russell(a)coker.com.au&gt; wrote:

...
  On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Michael Scott
&lt;luv(a)inoz.net&gt; 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.