Mark Morford (SF Chron): Liberals Are So Intolerant! (must read)

[Dudley_DUright]

I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you nefarious and perverted liberal commie tofu-hugging sex-drunk San Francisco medical experiment gone wrong from the land of fruits and nuts (or some iteration thereof -- so cute, my hate mail can be), hey, I notice you love to ridicule those creepy Christian megachurches and you enjoy spanking wide-eyed Mormons and tweaking the litigious nipples of the cult of Scientology and you recoil from toxic Bush policy like a vegetarian recoils from undercooked veal ...

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I cannot, for example, tolerate the dark and violent road down which this nation seems intent on careening like an Escalade on meth. I cannot tolerate brutal never-ending unnecessary wars and I cannot allow gay rights to be bashed and I truly loathe watching women's rights be slammed back to 1952. Or 1852.

I really have little patience for the gutting of our school system and the decimation of science and mysticism and the human mind for the sake of a handful of militant Christian zealots who truly believe the Second Coming will be arriving really soon but hopefully not before the next episode of HBO's "Cathouse: The Series," which they watch in secret with the lights off while clutching a Bible in one hand and a big tub of Country Crock margarine in the other.

I cannot tolerate an American president, ostensibly meant to be one of the most articulate and intellectually sophisticated leaders on the planet, mumbling his semicoherent support of the embarrassing nontheory of "Intelligent Design," to the detriment of about 300 years of confirmed science and 10 million years of common sense to the point where America's armies of dumbed-down Ritalin-drunk children look at him and sigh and secretly wish they could have a future devoid of such imbecilic thought but who realize, deep down, they are merely another doomed and fraught generation who will face an increasingly steep uphill battle, who will actually have to fight for fact and intellectual growth and spiritual progress against a rising tide of ignorance and religious hegemony and sanitized revisionist textbooks that insult their understanding and sucker punch their sexuality and bleed their minds dry.

more...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fgate%2Farchive%2F2005%2F08%2F10%2Fnotes081005.DTL

[ewagner]

1. Nice

I'm really beginning to like Morford...he's becoming a favorite.

[quispquake]

2. Thanks for the post...

That was great...I SO agree with the entire thing...

[sam sarrha]

3. Wow.. I AM IMPRESSED.!!!..how do you nominate for greatest thread,??

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Lower left of original message

Looks like one vote already (perhaps yours).

[Stuckinthebush]

4. YES!

Reading that was cathartic.

I just love Morford.

[Triana]

6. NOMINATED...

...I Love Morford. I sent him a shamless worship email about this one and told him he has fans here.

I sent the link with a few choice excerpts to some sanctimonious Reichwingnuts too and posted it a few other places.

Mwhahaaaaaaaaaaaa! Morford rocks...

[LisaLynne]

7. Great article.

I really loved this line: But don't you dare, based on your limited understanding of God and life, make laws declaring that I can't.

Limited understanding. That's what we're dealing with. That's what's wrong with these people. Be it from lack of exposure to the world, lack of critical thinking skills, lack of education, willful ignorance, or just plain old fear of the unknown, they have a limited understanding of just about everything.

[il_lilac]

8. "I am, in short, intolerant of intolerance...

in fact I'm choking on it" Bravo

[tomg]

9. That was awesome.

Love, Peace, Flowers and Brass Knuckles. Holy Shit.

[ooglymoogly]

10. fab article

loved every driven word. kick n nom

[grace0418]

11. ROCK ON! My favorite line:

"Don't believe in abortion? Don't understand gay people? Sexuality make you rashy? Think Harry Potter teaches kids evil and witchcraft? Don't marry a sexy gay witch abortionist. But don't you dare, based on your limited understanding of God and life, make laws declaring that I can't."

[Moochy]

12. Don't marry a sexy gay witch

Damn there go my plans.. Redhead girl from Buffy you are safe.. for now. :-)

[kliljedahl]

13. Just getting ready to post it when I saw yours

He's usually dead-on, but this is a 100% hit. Damn, I wish I had half the talent he does.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[katty]

14. Yeah! my rant at dinner every nite

[Bitter Betty]

15. Count me in as an intolerant liberal

Hey did you guys know that MM also contributes to the SFGate Culture Blog? He posted a snarky article on L Ron Hubbard over 2 weeks ago & it had just opened up for readers to post comments & I checked back & people are still posting to it as of today! This is great for those of us who can't get enough of MM's column. The comments are interesting reading too; however, you must wade through a lot of scientology wingnuts blathering about Scientology.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=247#readmore

[silverweb]

17. Thanks!

I subscribe to MM's column and get it via my e-mail, but I didn't even know about the Culture Blog.

Great stuff and bookmarked now!

:woohoo:

[CatWoman]

16. kick

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