Examing the Warrior and the Nature of Hatred

[ceebeegee]

I can't fathom the kind of hate that would compel someone to come to long Island all the way from Kansas, to hold up signs that says "God Hates Fags." And to bring your kids? These little ones given to your trust, and you teach them to hate? They're holding up signs and spouting unspeakable things, instead of playing with their toys and sleeping in a warm bed? I don't understand any of this.

I'm always torn when it comes to people like this. My first instinct is to ignore them, but then there's the idea of "for evil to triumph, the only requirement is for good people to do nothing." Is it strategic or just cowardly (or lazy) to ignore something like this? Are the F--- P-----es of the world looking for attention, or is there another agenda? So then my reaction is to yell back, because what they say and represent gets me so viscerally. But realistically I know that wouldn't accomplish anything--you'd have two people yelling instead of one. But I don't think I'm evolved enough to return love for hate. I know I should but that's really hard. I have a very difficult time with the whole "turn of the other cheek" of the Christian philosophy. I am a warrior. Maybe the struggle against hatred requires teachers and people who love, and not warriors. Maybe I should beat my sword back into a plowshare.

Comments

Re: Live by the sword... (Part II)

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

It is not true that the First Amendment protects only political speech. That is a sophistry invented by the judiciary. The First Amendment merely prohibits the federal government from infringing the absolute rights of speech and expression. To say that the First Amendment protects only political speech is to beg the question: who, pray tell, gets to define what constitutes political speech? Currently, whomever has control of the government believes that it is government which gets to define such things, but I put it to you that we can easilly see how destructive to the Bill of Rights this kind of sophistry is in action. Stick to your guns. Rights are absolute.