[iamkeri1]

This being a free country, I would have to support their right to speak, though I would not allow them to advocate violence or hatred for queerfolk of any variety, because that is against the law. (both the natural law, and law of the USA.) Also, I would like for throngs of people, either gay or straight to show up and oppose them each time they speak, as people do when a known Ku Klx Klan gathering is made public. I would like them to have to hide their faces and bodies behind a coverings, to speak their awful opinions, because the disapproval of they have to say is so strong that their fear exposure. I would like them to be seen as creatures who should be scorned and shunned, as people whom Jesus would have shouted down in the temple, rather than people who are followers of and speakers for Jesus as they make themselves out to be. While I choose not to hate them, because I don't want that hatred inside myself, I hate their attitude of smug superiority and self-righteousness; their assurance that "God is on their side"
Smooches to my peeps and raspberries to the haters.
Keri

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

This is where I get torn. On the one hand, I WANT people like Sprigg, as long as they exist, to be out in the public eye where we can see them coming. What's more, I want people to actually see them and then have to ask themselves "am I on their side". This is what I think was the doom of the segregationists. I have no illusion that white people in America woke up one day circa 1964 with universal love and fellow-feeling for black people. I think they woke up, saw screaming, hateful white faces attacking calm, peaceful, sometimes terrified black faces and thought "well, I may not know anything about blacks, I may not want my kid to marry one, but I know I'm not on the side of those guys with the fire hose and baseball bats..."

I ALSO want folks like Sprigg and his lot on TV so that WE don't get complacent. For too long I watched the gay movement (at least the Left leaning side of it) play this game of on the one hand talking about how the patriarchy oppresses queer people (true as far as it goes) but then pretending, sometimes in the same diatribe, that the most visible and obvious manifestation of that patriarchal mindset was no more than a few hundred under-educated people meeting in a couple of basement churches with no political or cultural influence. And time and time again, they beat us at the ballot box. Yet, we didn't take them seriously.

Having someone get on TV and hearing them say "I want to make a law against you" focuses the mind quite wonderfully.

Cheers
Aj