@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Fancy being "intolerant of intolerance" and banning adverts which are not illegal. Good old Boris. What a nitwit that guy is.
The problem is the hate ads are illegal.They are illegal because they are hate motivated towards a legitimate demographic of society. This is what HATE ADS means...
Some humans become consumed with hate and instead of just living their own lives peaceably and serenely, never hurting a fly, they take it upon themselves to try and live the lives of others, they are in your face megalomaniacs. They take a sign that says, 'please respect me' and switch it into a sign that says, 'please hate them'.
What defines a bully? A bully is at root, a person who has not learned that it is socially improper to try and force unvetted and socially unorthodox opinions upon others as science. i.e. your spouse (they fight all the time) They think they can make decisions for each other that are not theirs ultimately to make. We think it is our right to tell another person when to put their coat and hat on and if they should take an umbrella. The truth is some people prefer being a little cold and getting rained upon a bit. Some people are just different.
Generally the rules of the road are that all people deserve the same space and liberty to live their lives as they see fit. If we got along we would not ever have strife. So to begin to lay unreasonable and hateful restrictions upon certain demographics of society seems undemocratic. To try and justify fanciful religious edicts from invisible gods seems underhanded and disingenuous at best.
Democracy is a system of social boundaries and when speech becomes superstitiously and unjustifiably hateful then society has a right to ask that this speech be reserved to the speakers own pulpit and not be allowed to blast or drowned out out the real message of unity and social wholeness through diversity. A government is supposed to govern and hold cohesiveness and solidarity of country over stagnant exaggerated legalisms and far fetched religious tenants. We have freedom of religion, that means you can believe what ever x'd up stuff you can think up, or be led to believe, but that does not give you the right to impose that belief upon another person. Gays consent to their mutual marriage they do not impose gay marriage upon others. That is the fundamental difference.
The anti gay movement want to impose restrictions on gay marriage. They want to impose their ideas upon gays. They want to label us and the problem is they are probably gay too but they just won't admit it. Or they find it lucrative to remain opposed. The problem also is that to define gay is a problem. Women are gay too in their own way. Some gay people like lots of sex, some prefer only occasional sex with a gay spouse. Some heterosexuals like lots of sex, and some heterosexuals like only sex with a heterosexual spouse.
Gay is a spectrum, a gradient of human sexuality, a rainbow and color map of infinite variety of expression. Each color is a different type of human. Sexuality is as diverse, as the the different birds. You have birds that fly in formation, birds that are solitary and all of the birds in the midst.
You cannot tell a bird to not be what it is. The synergy of nature depends upon this diversity. You cannot tell a seed to not grow what it is. You cannot tell a carnation to bloom into a rose.
Hate ads are hate ads, society should detect and see them for what they are and not support them on the thoroughfares of collective consciousness.
