@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Quote:You might not like broccoli, but you're nobody to tell someone they can't eat broccoli how they please.
true, but I do have the right to associate with only those who do not like broccoli.
I guess you do, unless you are a public servant of some sort then you don't. As a private citizen you are free to seclude yourself.
hawkeye10 wrote:
I have the right to try to put space between the broccoli eaters and me, and request that they stay away from me.
You don't have this right. At least not like you're using it in these arguments. You can prohibit a gay person (any person for that matter) from coming onn to your private property, but you are out of your league if you think you can tell any group where they can go in public. You simply do not have this right. Check yourself.
hawkeye10 wrote:
In response the Broccoli eaters are free to decide that I am an asshole, but continually calling me an asshole (bigot) in public is bad form.
Being in asshole in public is bad form, identifying and calling assholes what they are is just taxonomy.
Besides, you're called asshole by lots of people who don't eat broccoli.
hawkeye10 wrote:
The main problem for me is that the broccoli eaters demand to come into my space with the stinky stuff, and are very clear that they are out to prove that they can do what ever they want, at which point they generated resistance from me.
Do whatever they want? No. Not whatever they want. They want to eat broccoli. Everything else is the same as non-broccoli eaters. You and them both eat carrots, and can eat them fine together. You don't get to tell them that they can't eat carrots at the non-broccoli eater's table. Why should how we eat or don't eat broccoli affect how we eat carrots? Check yourself.
Your space? Really? When was the last time a broccoli eater (<-- best euphemism to arrive on A2K in years) demand to enter your private property? I'm with you hawkeye! I don't think they have the right to be huddling up in your front lawn like that. They just don't have the right!
This must be an everyday thing for you. Bless your heart, your patience makes you a saint.
hawkeye10 wrote:
If they cant exercise common decency towards me I have no interest in being decent to them.
By this logic, you should not expect any decency from homosexuals. You've denied them common decency, so they should have to show no decency to you.
Pah-lease.
Besides, even if you were the victim you portray yourself as being, you haven't been treated indecent by EVERY homosexual, so why deny decency to EVERY homosexual? Certainly, you've been treated indecent by other heterosexuals? Did that make you hate all heterosexuals?
hawkeye10 wrote:
I am not a "turn the other cheek" kinda guy.
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Then enjoy the view.
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