cindyabs

You sure you don't want to rethink that one ????

SultanOfSwing

Thought police? Do me a lemon.

This isn't a left/right issue. It isn't even a gay/straight issue, I'd be prepared to bet that most gay people don't give a flying fluck what some fundie thinks of their lifestyle. It's the constant ramming of religion down the throats of the general public and people using this 'religious freedom' to justify being a bigot with impunity.

Yes, he's free to hold any opinion he likes, just as anyone else is free to say he's a cocksocket for saying it. Also, just as A&E, as his employer, have the right to put filming on hold.

I find it amusing that all these people braying about his freedom of speech said absolutely nothing about what happened to the Dixie Chicks and their Bush comments ...

Bluegrass Lass

But, but..that's different. They insulted our POTUS in front of foreigners!

My stepfather likes what happened to them, said they deserved it. But he did also say, that if they had said what they did on American soil, it wouldn't have been so bad.

SultanOfSwing

Didn't you know - only leftists have double standards.

Nutek

Well they gained at least one new fan.

cindyabs

DH and I were discussing this on way to work this am. It's the fact that "celebrities" (and I use the term loosely), spout off on stuff as if proclaiming the Ten Commandments, and again it doesn't matter what they say, liberal, conservative, redneck, hippy dippy, ad nauseum and everybody gets their knickers in a twist, or jumps up and down and yells "that's what I'm saying!!" These are people no different than you or I, and you know what, I don't care what they believe, either I agree with them or I don't, it won't change my life any.

Another note, this is not unlike the whole Paula Deen fiasco this summer.

Sally Redux

I have never seen the show, but as someone else said, my perception is that it's one of those 'freak pointing' ones where you're laughing at them. Therefore their views would be predictably stupid.

Mr Weeze

And so the spread of the term starts. Excellent. \mrburnsmodeoff

SultanOfSwing

At this point, it is what it is. The free speech aspect will have been done to death thirty times over for all the back and forth.

I will never give up my personal fight against the continued and ever-forced intrusion of religion into the daily lives of everyone when it should be kept inside the churches, temples, mosques, henges or wherever they are practiced.

And to those who would accuse me of forcing secularism I will say firstly, secularism is all-inclusive, by it's nature it can't be forced. Secondly, consider this - which is the most harmful viewpoint:

1. Homsexuals are abhorrent, evil, unnatural abominations who chose a lifestyle for which they deserve eternal punishment.

or

2. Homosexuality is a perfectly natural state of being and those who are born that way deserve to live their life free of oppression by those who have no business sticking their noses in at all.

It's an easy one for me.

Sally Redux

And as you pointed out earlier, Jesus didn't even mention it.

Bink

You see what you started here...?!

Mr Weeze

It was getting slow in here.

SultanOfSwing

Jesus, or at least the Jesus I learned about when I did go to church, would be ashamed to be associated with some of these people.

Sally Redux

Absolutely.

Nutek

Awesomevice!!!11!!