Stevie D wrote:I started reading some of the comments and was appalled that nearly all of them expressed such right-wing vitriolic conservatism. I would hope that these people are in the minority and that most of them are only posting their comments as a result of feeling emboldened to do so by reading the shameful opinions of others.
Such unnecessary hate saddens me beyond belief and truly undermines my faith in humanity as being basically decent.
Opinions eh? Gotta love the internet, it has a way of telling the world what everyone is thinking. The level of bigotry on the yahoo article is quite puzzling, and here I always took the area over there as being somewhat progressive.
No matter, we get back to our friend Mr. Goodwin, and I quote:
"
We want individual rights, we want the government off our backs, yet we're not willing to extend those rights to anyone who's different...."
If this were "American" culture we're talking about, I could get into all of the hypocrisy of the far right brainwashing
their children... of course, that itself is a taboo subject. They will defend to their dying breath their right to teach their kids creationism, or better, to enforce strict gender roles for boys and girls, and yet they'll be the first to cast stones to any parent who allows their son to wear a dress, and call these parents "unfit".
Now I'm not trying to harp on conservative parents who choose to raise their children as they see fit. Personally I agree they should be free to as long as it doesn't involve abuse, after all, this is the internet age, any bull sh!t parents feed their children is easily washed away once they grow up and figure out how to read, and get online. But this road must run both ways, those conservative parents need to
sit down and shut up when it comes to parents of opposing views exorcising their right to raise their children as
they see fit.
Oh well, at the end of the day, you can't change these people. It is what it is.