Hi Mike --- it's Elise, from NH (waving southeastward)
Sure, they're entitled to *be* bigots. But they shouldn't be entitled to go unchallenged if they're given a media platform --- which is what's been happening in the media far too often lately.
One of the least-used but most effective arguments against the fundies that I've seen is the following: Homosexuality has been documented in 400 animal species. *Particularly* if you're dealing with a creationist, the implication is that God intended a good deal of homosexuality, since the entire animal kingdom is supposedly still just as he made it.
Usually takes a bit of air out of their sails. Of course, the really hard-cores will make retorts like "God intended man to be better than animals" or "Science is inherently flawed and full of liberal bias", etc., etc. At which point I guess one just has to say "Well, you're entitled to even *that* opinion".
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on 2006-02-26 03:40 pm (UTC)Sure, they're entitled to *be* bigots. But they shouldn't be entitled to go unchallenged if they're given a media platform --- which is what's been happening in the media far too often lately.
One of the least-used but most effective arguments against the fundies that I've seen is the following: Homosexuality has been documented in 400 animal species. *Particularly* if you're dealing with a creationist, the implication is that God intended a good deal of homosexuality, since the entire animal kingdom is supposedly still just as he made it.
Usually takes a bit of air out of their sails. Of course, the really hard-cores will make retorts like "God intended man to be better than animals" or "Science is inherently flawed and full of liberal bias", etc., etc. At which point I guess one just has to say "Well, you're entitled to even *that* opinion".
Elise
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