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Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies

Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

I wonder if she realizes that if they revoke the policy, it can allow everyone on campus who finds her views idiotic and closeminded to pretty much torment the hell out of her.

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[quandry.livejournal.com]

Er, that was me. Didn't realize I wasn't logged in.

[uglor.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty rabidly pro free speech. I'm just wondering if she realizes that revoking the tolernace policy would mean everyone on campus who finds her views hateful and closeminded could now harras the shit out of her.

The secondary annoyance is the whole "I need to say bad things about gay people because jesus said to" angle. Christians pretty much run this country, and are developing a huge persecution complex about being "under attack." There are a lot of non-christians and non-idiotic christians who believe religion shouldn't be a blunt object to use in fag bashing.

Face it, Jesus was a big hippie, all about love thy neighbor, poor people and those icky lepers. It's the Christians who use religion as an excuse for their own sense of superiority and petty hatreds that piss me off.

[quandry.livejournal.com]

Eh, the Christians don't run this country as much as they used to, which is why you see a backlash and the attempt to build up a persecution complex. It's a way of rallying the troops for a last gasp. It's not going to work, and I don't care to prolong the inevitable by giving them the fuel to fire their persecution complex.

But yeah, the real Jesus would have never, ever treated gays the way that some Christians do. The opinions of various Christian students I've talked to about the issue is that gays are no bigger sinners than anyone else on the planet - which isn't hard to do since we ALL belong in Hell. But hey, I can live with an equal-opportunity philosophy like that ;-) It's the ones who think they're going to Heaven who give me the creeps.

As for whether she realizes that everyone could lay into her, eh, I bet she knows it. I'm sure she's figured out by now that not everyone on campus thinks she's right. As I remember them, GA Tech folks aren't so steeped in the social graces that they gracefully omit their opinions from conversations where it might cause a confrontation. I figure anyone who's put herself into this role is probably looking for some heat. Getting a big hyperventilating combative reaction is exactly what she wants.