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Originally Posted by FireFly
Right. So two wrongs make a right. Because SOME Christians are ignorant about ALL gays, that makes it okay for SOME gays to be ignorant to ALL Christians?
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Of course not, no one claims that, except you claiming that that's the way it is.
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I'm not saying society has given a free card either way, I'm asking why we don't hold gay people to the same expectations we have of religious people. It's not right in either case, but I've never heard gays called bigots or haters, even though it's a two way street. It's just that one way is more publicised.
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Of course, everyone would agree that it goes both ways and bigotry either way shouldn't be supported.
You are right that one way is probably publicized more than the other. And I can think of lots of reasons why that is, but mostly because the social consciousness has changed but not everyone has caught up yet, so while it does the media plays a role of communicating.
Think about racism.. there were/are racist white people and black people. For a long time that was fine. Then things changed, the social conscious changed; racism was bad. But people don't change over night, so the media shows times when racism is bad.. And mostly show black people being oppressed because they're the ones that were at the disadvantage.
That's my theory anyway.