Posted on 09/03/2003 11:15:14 AM PDT by Polycarp
How much, and for how long can these dip wads push, before the parishioners, in utter disgust, gather at the jails with their pitch forks, and free them?
I think you are right, but I wonder if Islam get a free ride?
I agree with your confusion, and find it a source of constant amusement that the libs have built up a whole concept and framework of debate based on a malaprop. Because if we look at the definitions:
homo n, pl homos [NL, Homin-, Homo, genus name, fr. L, man] any of a genus (Homo) of primate mammals that usu. inludes a single recent species (H. sapiens) comprising all surviving and various extinct men
Or, alternately:
hom- or homo- comb form [L, fr. Gk, fr. homos - more at SAME 1 : one and the same : similar : alike (homograph) (homosporous) 2 homologous with a (specified) chemical compound (homogentisic acid)
Combined with:
-phobe n comb form [Gk -phobos fearing] : one fearing or averse to (something specified) (Francophobe)
[Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1979, G. & C. Merriam Company. Springfield, MA)
So we have either:
homophobe : man fear, or fear of man (?), or
homophobe : similar fear, or maybe fear of sameness (?)
Neither of which make a whole lot of sense unless the meaning is twisted into the current version of newspeak the left always tries to use.
As for the time needed for people to become fed up with the left wing persecution of Christians, I think there is already a backlash developing and it could take the form of civil disobediance or perhaps a clarification of the first amendment. I am really tired of being hammered by these ignorant tyrants.
Amen brother. I can't add anything to that, except to say that I do not think Jesus Christ ever wanted a bunch of pacifist followers, who do nothing, while the heathen rape and murder their wives and children. This has not happened here yet. The key word is YET. It does, however, happen in other parts of the world.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/aug/01082001.html "In February 2000, the Ontario Human Rights Commission found Brockie guilty of discrimination and fined him $5,000 for refusing a printing job from a homosexual activist organization."
This is from a Google search for canada billboard homosexual
http://www.users.mis.net/~dcgay/hatecrime.htm "The fact of the matter is that it is already happening here. Government officials in Staten Island called the word of God "hate-speech" and forced a billboard owner to cover up a Bible quote about homosexuality. One cannot buy ads or use quotes from Bible verses, which condemn the practice of homosexuality on billboards, anywhere in New York City."
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