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Barry Yon Sprout:
And personally I find your second point (about wearing intentions on our sleeves) a little bit irrelevant. I was talking about hate being preached against the materially innocent and thus harming them.
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Actually, I think you just showed the point I was making. If you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve, where is the HARM?? If you aren't over-emotional, you won't be emotionally distressed. What other harm could there be? Please speak to this -- define the harm.
Once you limit the speech YOU don't like, be prepared for the other side to try and do the same. Because it is a value judgment, you cannot substitute your version for theirs.
Perhaps these people feel they are doing good. It is, after all, perfectly acceptible to believe that homosexuality is disallowed by the bible and will add in sending you to hell -- that is a fair interpretation of the text. Not the only one, but a fair one. Millions of people all over the world believe it. By openly damning this gay man, perhaps they intend to save others from the path they see as evil -- perhaps they are only trying to save souls as Jesus wanted them to. Why not allow them to preach it from a soapbox? If it's so wrong, people won't listen or will boo and hiss. That's the way it goes.