Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...BGLSA demands not just tolerance, but acceptance. One of their posters equate a biblical, "natural law" critique of homosexuality with "biblical" rationalizations of racism, implying that anyone who disapproves of their lifestyles is a pin-headed fundamentalist bigot. No matter that not even the most conservative theologian would ever use a biblical argument against mixed-race marriages. No matter that some very rational people discern a distinction between race and sexual orientation...
...light of the recent controversy, Thompson now says he was misquoted. But what if he was not? The corporate response can be deemed appropriate only if Thompson is truly a bigot...
...strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...
Once, in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. told some black college students about the Aristotelian bigot. This bigot, said King, constructed a syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man. The black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and 180,000 other blacks who served in the Civil War, took that syllogism and burned it to ashes...
Rooney denies making the statement about blacks. He says he was talking more about "class," which applies to whites as well. "I'm just furious," he says, "about the notion that I am a racist or a bigot." The Advocate says it made no tape recording of the conversation. But, a spokesman says, "we stand by our reporter 100%, and CBS chose...