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Originally posted by cthulu23
....but their insistence on bringing weapons into a parade does smack of intentional antagonism, don't you think?
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No I don't think so as I saw this a little differently. It seemed to me that the organizers of the event went out of their way to single out and exclude a certain segment (however minority it might be) of the gay community, with peaceful and similar goals, apparently even violently. Essentially they were intolerant of people who wanted to attend an event designed to promote tolerance.
You may be homosexual but your not the right kind of homosexual to be included in our homosexual event...so we will violently and intolerantly try and prevent you from attending ~our~ peaceful tolerance event. That ~is~ a text book example of irony.
I find the blatant bigotry and intolerance of the organizers... directed at members of their own constituency to be rather bizarre. Yet interestingly not all that unexpected.
This is a debate about a group of hypocritical intolerant bigots over stepping their bounds in order to exclude members of their own community from participating in an event designed to forward the common aims of that community. THIS IS NOT a debate about guns, imo...
-bear