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To: Vermont Lt
"when I see vitriole, hate, and biblical quotations I have to check and see if I have mistakenly logged into my Taliban forum."

Honest question: do you class moral disapproval of certain behaviors, per se, as hate? Or do you think disapproval could be right and just, but contempt, ill-will and slander directed toward the person are what really qualify as hate?

527 posted on 05/24/2007 10:29:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Do not accept a "truth" that comes without love, or a "love" that comes without truth. Edith Stein)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Honest question: do you class moral disapproval of certain behaviors, per se, as hate? Or do you think disapproval could be right and just, but contempt, ill-will and slander directed toward the person are what really qualify as hate?

You didn't direct this at me, but I will say that I think that while some posts indicated disapproval and no more (see the posts reading along the lines of "I don't approve of homosexual relationships but any new life should be celebrated"), many posts on this thread went way beyond moral disapproval into hate (see the "She will spend eternity in hell" post and all of those handwringers posting about this poor poor child who apparently would have been better off never having been born than being child of two lesbians.) .

Free Republic used to be a political forum advocating Republican/conservative/libertarian thought; it's turning into a forum advocating theocracy, and this thread is just one of many examples.

539 posted on 05/24/2007 2:23:06 PM PDT by cammie
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