QOTD: "Liberalism means tolerance, but it doesn't mean silence"

[phantom power]

So, I might laugh a little at the poor-suffering lunatics who think their society is being ruined by gays, but I'm not actually looking to stick it to religious conservatives. I want to beat them in the political arena and I wish they would just go away and leave the rest of us alone, but I don't want to molest their deluded congregations. Mr. Linker asks me to react to "the setbacks of [my political] opponents with a bit more magnanimity." I feel like he's asking more from me than has been asked of them in all the time they've been rampaging over my value system. I also feel like I haven't been all that much of a sore winner. You know, I can kind of understand how some fucked up bastard might feel real downhearted every time he sees a black president on his teevee. I can feel for them. I can have a little empathy for the lonely bigot. I don't have to dance on their dread and sense of loss. That's about how I feel about someone who thinks contraceptive coverage in a health insurance plan is a godless Communist plot to commit genocide on the unborn. I mean, screw those people.

Liberalism means tolerance, but it doesn't mean silence.

In any case, how can I be cocky when these fools are attacking abortion rights in the states like some kind of Mongol horde?

In the end, I just don't understand what Mr. Linker is really asking liberals to do differently. We're already bending over backwards to accommodate the religious beliefs of people who are living (mentally) in the 17th-Century. You want more?

What would Jefferson say?

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/2/12/193040/798