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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
Would it make a difference if I used another word?
So instead of hatred it's intolerance, or prejudice, or bigotry, or judgement? It's all the same in my eyes.
Regardless of who taught it to him, Mike got criticised for even expressing those feelings. It was not his father that people were criticising, it was him.
Now when Theo says the same stuff but about somebody else, it's ok? Because it springs from a religious source, we should respect the fact that he thinks it is ok to discriminate against a certain group of people? Because it is rooted in a spiritual belief? There are a lot of wrongheaded ideas rooted in spiritual beliefs and the fact that someone thinks god said it doesn't make them ok.
I think that people who say it is when they were the first ones to criticise Mike are hypocrites.
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the point that i am trying to make is that i don't believe theo is discriminating against chris or other homosexuals. he just doesn't approve of the lifestyle. i haven't once heard him say that he doesn't like chris because he is gay, nor have i seen him treat chris with disrespect/disdain because he is gay. theo has just made it known that, because of his religious belifes, he doesn't believe in homosexuality. and, i don't believe he is judging chris either. he hasn't condemned chris to hell and if he did, it wouldn't be right because that is not his call to make. he doesn't talk down to chris, he doesn't treat chris bad. he just made it known how he feels about the homosexual lifestyle.
and yes, mike got criticized for saying what his father told him, but not by me because i didn't think it to be as serious as coral made it out to be. i think he could've picked his words better, but i wasn't on the "i hate mike" bandwagon because of it. and i don't think there were a lot of people who were.