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Sandra at the beach
There were some interesting comments about ‘tolerance’ in the Fray at XX Factor (Slate.com), in response to posts by Abby Collard (Oct 3) and EJ Graff (Oct 4). Neither Collard nor Graff thought...
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Yesterday, once more
Lucretia, as usual, is forcing me to sharpen my thoughts in response to her own perspicacious observations. So: the varieties of tolerance. I’ve been focussing on political tolerance, tolerance among...
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Some of my best friends are. . .
Rick Warren loves gay people. Most people know I have many gay friends. I’ve eaten dinner in gay homes. No church has probably done more for people with AIDS than Saddleback Church. Kay and I have...
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Respect yourself
I’d eat pie with Rick Warren. Yeah, I verbally smacked him around yesterday, so maybe he wouldn’t want to share a slice with me, but, as I’ve mentioned before, I think pie is a fine chaser to argument....
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God, cops, and, oh, God and cops
He wouldn’t shake my hand. He said something about ‘respect,’ but it wasn’t clear if he were asking me to respect his wish not to shake my hand, or if he were demonstrating respect for me by not...
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It’s not going to stop, so just give up
At what point does one give up? And what reasons for such up-giving? This is (for this post) a political and intellectual question, rather than an existential one: At what point does one give up...
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If you decide to make the sky fall
I am not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew. I am not Hindu, or Buddhist, or Jain, Taoist, Bahá’í, Wiccan, Yazidi, Shinto, Zoroastrian, Sikh, or any sort of pagan or animist. I am not spiritual, and believe...
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