I thought the whole thing that came up with Phil Robertson and his beliefs on homosexuality was an interesting point to address. Personally, I think what he said about homosexuals was hideous and wrong. I think what he said was unjust and horrible. I think love is love and there should be nothing else to it, but, at the same time, I don't think that he should have to be suspended from "Duck Dynasty". Why? I don't even watch the show-in fact- I would never had been able to pin down Phil Robertson as part of the show. But I think it raises a point of intolerance, not only towards gay people, but also towards those who are intolerant towards others. Perhaps I am contradicting myself by saying that I thought his words were horrible and then still believing he should not be suspended, but, I believe, that this issue is greater than a T.V. show. This is the issue of intolerance vs. tolerance. Sure, I may not believe that his words are right and just, but that doesn't mean that if you do not agree with him you have to still continue to watch this program. We forget that just because a man is not speaking his words for all to hear that there are not those speaking them, that just because you can not hear these words does not mean that they are not being spoken. I think we, as people who are for gay-rights, who are tolerant and loving of one another, forget where we came from. We forget that once we were the ones being persecuted for our ideals, punished for our thoughts and words. So easily can we persecute our persecutors, so easily can we forget how awful it is to be stifled and ridiculed, and yet, yet, we jump to do the same at anyone whose beliefs do not meld directly with ours? That is not the way of the tolerant, the loving. That is the way of the intolerant and the hating.Sometimes, I think, we forget where we came from, what we endured to be able to voice our beliefs and our ideas, as radical as they may seem to be. That we forget that, sometimes, that those with the widest beliefs, may have the narrowest minds.
On Phil Robertson
Dear World;
I thought the whole thing that came up with Phil Robertson and his beliefs on homosexuality was an interesting point to address. Personally, I think what he said about homosexuals was hideous and wrong. I think what he said was unjust and horrible. I think love is love and there should be nothing else to it, but, at the same time, I don't think that he should have to be suspended from "Duck Dynasty". Why? I don't even watch the show-in fact- I would never had been able to pin down Phil Robertson as part of the show. But I think it raises a point of intolerance, not only towards gay people, but also towards those who are intolerant towards others. Perhaps I am contradicting myself by saying that I thought his words were horrible and then still believing he should not be suspended, but, I believe, that this issue is greater than a T.V. show. This is the issue of intolerance vs. tolerance. Sure, I may not believe that his words are right and just, but that doesn't mean that if you do not agree with him you have to still continue to watch this program. We forget that just because a man is not speaking his words for all to hear that there are not those speaking them, that just because you can not hear these words does not mean that they are not being spoken. I think we, as people who are for gay-rights, who are tolerant and loving of one another, forget where we came from. We forget that once we were the ones being persecuted for our ideals, punished for our thoughts and words. So easily can we persecute our persecutors, so easily can we forget how awful it is to be stifled and ridiculed, and yet, yet, we jump to do the same at anyone whose beliefs do not meld directly with ours? That is not the way of the tolerant, the loving. That is the way of the intolerant and the hating.Sometimes, I think, we forget where we came from, what we endured to be able to voice our beliefs and our ideas, as radical as they may seem to be. That we forget that, sometimes, that those with the widest beliefs, may have the narrowest minds.
I thought the whole thing that came up with Phil Robertson and his beliefs on homosexuality was an interesting point to address. Personally, I think what he said about homosexuals was hideous and wrong. I think what he said was unjust and horrible. I think love is love and there should be nothing else to it, but, at the same time, I don't think that he should have to be suspended from "Duck Dynasty". Why? I don't even watch the show-in fact- I would never had been able to pin down Phil Robertson as part of the show. But I think it raises a point of intolerance, not only towards gay people, but also towards those who are intolerant towards others. Perhaps I am contradicting myself by saying that I thought his words were horrible and then still believing he should not be suspended, but, I believe, that this issue is greater than a T.V. show. This is the issue of intolerance vs. tolerance. Sure, I may not believe that his words are right and just, but that doesn't mean that if you do not agree with him you have to still continue to watch this program. We forget that just because a man is not speaking his words for all to hear that there are not those speaking them, that just because you can not hear these words does not mean that they are not being spoken. I think we, as people who are for gay-rights, who are tolerant and loving of one another, forget where we came from. We forget that once we were the ones being persecuted for our ideals, punished for our thoughts and words. So easily can we persecute our persecutors, so easily can we forget how awful it is to be stifled and ridiculed, and yet, yet, we jump to do the same at anyone whose beliefs do not meld directly with ours? That is not the way of the tolerant, the loving. That is the way of the intolerant and the hating.Sometimes, I think, we forget where we came from, what we endured to be able to voice our beliefs and our ideas, as radical as they may seem to be. That we forget that, sometimes, that those with the widest beliefs, may have the narrowest minds.
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