Reply #167: I don't get that at all. [View All]

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I don't see that anyone is asking for eggshells, or hiding, or appeasement.

We have a slew of posts all the time about "Don't ask me to give up my position on X just to win elections". Often I disagree about the choice made--simply because I think winning an election more important than a particular stand--but every person has to decide what to compromise and what not. None of that applies to the way Christians are treated all too often on DU, because being a christian or not being a christian SHOULDN'T be a diqualification for being a liberal democrat, and having someone take jabs at your personal life SHOULDN'T be a gauntlet that someone has to run.

I would prefer DU be a theology free zone, if only because it is boring and largely besides the political points, but that's true of a lot of the shit that is on the board. If not for the fact that democrats can't win an election without democratic Christians, and that the threads become a tool of exclusion, it would just be another day.

Tolerance and civility doesn't mean being apologetic for your own beliefs. That's the mistake the fundies make: if you tolerate so and so, that means you think it's okay or you don't really feel all that strongly about your beliefs. If you tolerate an atheist, you approve of atheism. If you tolerate a gay, you approve of homosexuality. So make the atheists say a prayer and keep the gay from getting a job, or at the very least, raise a sign to tell them that God hates them. Make sure that they know you are against them. Don't let a second pass.

I don't want it to start and end there with the Christians.