On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
[me]
How about a lack of pedantry? I don't particularly care for JDG's condescending tone when addressing us mere mortals, and as I have a life, I can't say that I've been particularly seeking out every single pearl of wisdom dropped before my snout by His Holiness. Therefore I have not read his copious blasts of bombast.
Well, I have never felt that he has talked down to me.
I appear to be in his trash filter anyway, so I don't know whether to rate that as the ultimate condescension, or something else. (What I don't know.)
I was responding to the implicit meaning of this phrase:
Perhaps most extraordinary is the amendment in Ohio, which is so strongly worded that even I would have voted against it
Which suggests to me that there were other homophobic bills he would have supported.
Or, that there are opinions that differ from yours that are not homophobic.
How about bigoted, then? IMO banning gay marriage is identical to banning interracial marriage.
One thing I find useful, although I'm not always good at it, is understanding the reasoning of people who differ from me.
You know, I might try that too, but I've been on this front for over half my damn life now and frankly I am tired of trying to reason with bigoted attitudes. It's not possible. It's worse in this instance because I *thought* we were past the worst of it a decade ago, but this damned hydra just keeps coming back.
Its interesting to see posts in this thread discussing the lack of and need
for intelligent honest dialog; since I see obstacles to that in the same
thread.
Indeed. The flipside of that is: This dialog happened in 1992. It's hard to get motivated to do it all again.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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