Now you’re simply lying:
To: Clint N. Suhks
I have several friends who happen to be gay. If you called one a “Sodomite” in front of me, I’d put your lights out.
1,640 posted on December 20, 2010 8:52:22 AM EST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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"If you called one a “Sodomite” in front of me, I’d put your lights out."
See the word "if"? There it is. Say "Hi!" Make it your friend. And then there's the world "called" . Not in the present tense, but in the conditional tense. Also note the word I'd as in "I would" - also conditional, not present, grammar fans.
It means: this... is... a...hypothetical example.
Hy-po-thet-i-cal. Look it up.
Now IF (cond.) I HAD (cond.) said: "Say that to my face, and I WILL punch your lights out" - THAT would have been a threat.