tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post6386382022063100279..comments2023-10-07T04:19:14.316-07:00Comments on A CHRISTIAN VOICE FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?Jerry Manekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-53688098155085094052008-10-12T20:10:00.000-07:002008-10-12T20:10:00.000-07:00Hi Gennee: It's also a matter of respecting onesel...Hi Gennee: It's also a matter of respecting oneself. If one doesn't show self-respect, and demand dignity, it's certain that others won't afford that person either respect or dignity. Especially at a time when so much regarding full and equal civil rights are on the line, use of pejorative epithets as self-identifiers as well as self-destructive behavior morphs into verbiage and behavior that is destructive to others who do seek that dignity, respect from others, and full and equal civil rights.Jerry Manekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-368223620366634912008-10-12T19:21:00.000-07:002008-10-12T19:21:00.000-07:00I dislike the b-word and don't have much respect f...I dislike the b-word and don't have much respect for people who use it in reference to women. I was brought up to respect women and my elders. With the pop culture we live in, it's no wonder that some people don't know how to treat others.<BR/><BR/>It's true that how we treat others will come back to us in some form sooner or later.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041499205158357183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-57059642926299971772008-10-11T12:50:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:50:00.000-07:00It was a pleasure to cross post this excellent ess...It was a pleasure to cross post this excellent essay! Those who refuse to get the message that the quest for full civil rights is being thwarted by such sabotage to which we've called attention will not only reap the whirlwind but, more tragically, are seeing to it that other LGBT people are also likely to continue being denied full and equal civil rights that they both want and so richly deserve. As Frederick Schiller said, "Against stupidity, even the gods contend in vain."Jerry Manekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-13573592368054974292008-10-11T10:10:00.000-07:002008-10-11T10:10:00.000-07:00Thanks for cross-posting this essay, Jerry. I'm a...Thanks for cross-posting this essay, Jerry. I'm afraid, though, that people are greeting this incident with a collective shrug, even at the Black forum I posted it in. I see the usual nonsense about claiming racial and sexual insults as "endearments". Maybe we should go back in history and ressurrect other racial epithets like "jigaboo", "Brillo head" and "coon", too? The more the merrier, right? Let's all just wallow in degradation; after all, that's what heroes like Martin Luther King, Susan B. Anthony and Harvey Milk fought for! BARF! Our popular culture seems to have lost its trendy mind. I can hear Satan laughing.DC HAMPTON JACOBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.com