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Unwarranted personal attacks  [message #63626] Tue, 07 September 2010 19:20 Go to previous message
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Dear Timmy,
I'd be grateful if you would point out to me (and maybe Cossie) what it is that I've written that justifies the personal attacks on us that you can read in other threads. I'm not a fool or immoral and the fact that I disagree with the terminology about war and about the question of fact about anyone's declaration of it don't seem to justify the suggestion that Cossie and I are failing to do what's right for the group.

Surely my view about the way to promote homosexual equality is as valid as anyone else's until shown to be failing in some respect. It hasn't been shown to be failing. Simply asserting that I or Cossie haven't understood is inadequate. We actually are quite intellectually competent.

If everyone on here thinks I'm wrong please tell me, the rest of you. As far as I can tell only one person has attacked me and only one other person has said he thinks that there really is a war declared on us (but he didn't say who made the declaration - maybe it was by the bible belt christian right in the USA). But the USA isn't even a majority of the world and the bible belt isn't a majority of the USA.

The USA seems to be a place where people are ready to do the most amazingly stupid things like burning hundreds of copies of the Koran which won't make reconciliation with Islam easier. Not that I think there is anything to be said in favour of Islam or any other religion. I can think like this surely without declaring war on all religions?

I have looked at what I have written here and can't find much wrong with it. I proof-read what I write before posting it (I wish everyone did!). I'm not (I hope) over-hasty in my responses and I take care to explain where I disagree, if I do. But the people who seem to disagree with me don't do the same. I don't have much idea what it was about what I wrote that led to the latest attacks on me. [Maybe it was simply the fact that I don't go along with everything that some other people say - but then, who does?]

Surely you don't think it is my duty to agree with you (or with anyone else?) Plainly I think it isn't a war and that the use of that word is inappropriate but what is wrong with that? I'm entitled to my view.

And as someone in Monty Python said, assertion and contradiction don't make an argument.
Love,
Anthony

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