Local Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'

[kanageddaamen]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

kanageddaamen said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Oh yeah? So you wouldn't mind if a bunch of nazis started marching the streets and express their 'opinions'?

Just listen to yourself.

Of course I would mind, and I would be vocal in my opposition to their opinions, but I would not expect, nor want, the government to stop them.  If they tried to ACT on their opinions, then that is the where the government can step in.

It is not the role of government to protect people from hurt feelings, and I would warn any people against giving the government the authority to do so or the opinion that that is their job.

Ideas are not dangerous, people are.

And there we have yet another American input.

Not everyone is capable of protecting themselves from hatred towards them. A minority who was unfortunate to be born in the middle of a racist community should not have to listen to everyones 'opinions' every day. They need protection from vocal discrimination.

Yes, it is an American input, and I make no qualms about that.  We are a country that believes (or at least used to believe) that it is better to live with the consequences of protected, sweeping liberties than the spectre of constant government intervention in our lives.  You also seem to be confusing the acceptance of someone's freedom as the acceptance of their views, which is patently false.  

Believing someone has a RIGHT to do something and believing someone SHOULD do something are two completely different things.  If my opinions were legislation, all religion would be banned, as I am an athiest and view religion as poisonous institutions that rob people of their ability to think critically, while picking their pocket and providing nothing but fear and false promises.  Fortunately, what I PERSONALLY think is right and wrong does not matter to the freedoms of those around me.  And, seeing how things could be turned the other way I would NEVER want the government to legislate what someone thinks is right and wrong.

Right and wrong is not for the government to decide.  They should simply protect people from physical harm (eg murder, theft, etc) of actions of other people they do not willingly participate in.

That minority born into a racist community has freedom to move to a non-racist community.  If you are talking about a child, then it is the role of their guardian to provide a location that is condusive of a happy lifestyle.  Their discrimination  there is not the failure of government but that of their guardians, and other thinking, moral people who do not use their own freedom of speech to rally against such situations and bring awareness to the rest of the public.

I do love the irony though, of you throwing AMERICAN around as a discriminatory term, while railing against discriminatory speech.