holy_secret said:
Wow. I never thought the day would come where I can truly say "I agree with Bill O'Reilly".
I'm flabbergasted my own self.
It's one of the first times I've seen O'Reilly display true internal consistency within his beliefs -- it's wrong to hire/fire people based on a non-work-related belief, and that protection should extend to homosexuals, too. I especially love that he brought in the comparison to McArthyism, since it's still somewhat vogue to hate on anything remotely communist-sounding.
The thing that puzzles me about the group protesting is this: At what point
in her work as JCPenney spokeswoman has Ellen said or done anything particularly "homosexual?" If she were using her position as a platform to push a personal agenda, I could agree that it's inappropriate --
whatever the agenda -- but that's not what's happening here.
This is simply an act of trying to selectively edit reality not to include anyone who is openly homosexual. Disagreeing with it? That's fine. Not wanting to have it
pushed on you by others? Also fine. Trying to actually alter reality to keep yourself from having to even admit that it exists? It's wrong, and it's destructive to promote that kind of thinking.
What would the "middle-American Christians" do if this country ever achieved a non-Christian majority? Would they simply lie down and take it? "We disagree with your religion, and the fact that you display it openly, so we're going to demand that you be ostracized from society and be unable to hold down work."
It's fine to disagree with them. It's fine to ask that they not chase you down with pamphlets and homilies. It's another thing, once you "find out" someone is a Christian (or in this case, a homosexual), to actively work to exclude them from
every aspect of society.
And what makes this case particularly odd is that Ellen is probably the
least "chase you down with it" lesbian in entertainment.
