> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Boy Scouts Of America > > > Jim wrote: > > You're willing to tolerate something distasteful because there's > something > > attractive enough for you to make that compromise. > > I am willing to tolerate Jews. I am willing to tolerate Catholics. I > am willing to tolerate the BSOA. These are all exclusionary clubs, > but I'm willing to speak, work, and live with all of them.
I wasn't making any judgment (really) - maybe "tolerate" was a bad word. I'm assuming that - in and of itself - you consider discrimination bad. But in this case you consider the good of the Scouts to be good enough to outweigh the bad. I'm saying that whenever we look at anything (anything at all) there are good and bad points about it. We judge our tolerance of the (purely subjective) bad versus the (purely subjective) good. > I will even attend church events and buy Boy Scout wreaths. Do you > really never do anything to support any church related activity? Oh hell - don't take me wrong. I'm not saying that YOU compromise and I don't. ;^) Just like everybody else for me it depends. I definitely won't attend/support any evangelical/fundamentalist activities (there's not enough cheese in the world). But I was best man at my friend's wedding and happily sat through an entire, extended Catholic mass. I took my son to a fete at his friends church. In both cases my distaste for organized religion was outweighed by my desire to please friends and family. I'm not saying "discrimination is wrong and I will never, ever support anything or anyone that practices it!". I'm saying discrimination (and, I'll be honest, especially discrimination against me) is really distasteful to me so there better be a lot of good (a lot of good I can't get anyplace else) for me to compromise on it. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245894 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
