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To: Notwithstanding
Q: How is this about "rabid bigotry"? I know you can make the case that these are highly-agendized activists, but that doesn't make them "bigots," just fanatical. And fanaticism is a staple of our modern culture--even here on FR.

I have no quibble with your rebuke of these people--I'm sure you're right; they likely won't ever be satisfied, just as the "civil rights" folks will never admit that they've won the fight because the fight becomes an end in itself, not a means to an end--but at least you can use a more accurate and less incendiary term than "bigot."

7 posted on 12/15/2002 8:47:33 PM PST by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Q: How is this about "rabid bigotry"?

Don't pay attention to the extreme rhetoric. The Catholic League is like a Catholic version of the National Action Network (Al Sharpton's organization). It's political street theater; William Donahue is a monumental boob.

He's always whining about how much Catholics are being discriminated against. Catholics (and other religious people) are slandered and discriminated against in many occasions--just like minorities. But Jesse Jackson goes too far, as does Wild Bill Donahue.

If this was a Muslim religious leader involved in a sex scandal like this FR would never hear the end of it. The same people defending the Pope now would be some of the loudest attackers.

62 posted on 12/15/2002 11:28:56 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: Illbay
Q: How is this about "rabid bigotry"?

It isn't. And everyone knows it. But the debate tactic of slandering rather than discussing facts is standardized among some of his ilk - the which you ought to be well aware of Ilbay; but, thank you for pointing it out. For some, absent any facts or intelligent defense, all they can do is namecall. We aren't liberals. And playing liberal games tells us the vancancy of credibility they have on it. Look at the bile in the condemnation. To me, that is projecting.

270 posted on 12/20/2002 9:00:23 AM PST by Havoc
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