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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Just to clear the air...
I can see how you might construe "religious right" to mean "Christian religious right". It was not my intention to make that connection with my poor choice of language. I would include in "wacko religious right" all those who practice an extremely conservative form of religion. As I suggested above words such as "fundamentalist", "orthodoxy", "fringe", "extreme" would have better served. I will attempt to be more careful in my use of language in the future.
I apologize for my carelessness...
I still stand by my statement that a device that would have been surgically inserted into a vagina to prevent rape (or any sexual interference) would be a valuable object to parents who have extreme religious beliefs about the sanctity of their daughters (I believe I have sufficently detailed where I was coming from in this regard).
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You've nothing to apologize for. Even if you had been referring specifically to right-wing Christian crazies, it's the same as speaking ill of the extremist Islamic groups that perpetrate violence. It is not bigoted to speak a certain way of persons with distinguishing behavioural characteristics that apply to the statements made about them. It is bigoted to look down upon a group/person simply because they are from that specific group. A very important, and frequently missed, detail.