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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Was this a response to me? Yes, those three taken together probably make up the vast majority, but that first 'biblical verse' portion isn't implicitly bigoted. Again, unless you want to water down the term.
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One could very easily read the Bible as a source of incredible bigotry without any watering down. It's blatantly sexist and racist, no two ways about it, and what little it does say about homosexuality isn't made clear beyond "it's an abomination". There's no argument made other than "God doesn't like it", and even those passages are highly suspect. Verses surrounding anti-gay verses are regularly ignored by all Christians (I don't need to repeat verses about shellfish), which leads me to suspect—though now know for sure—that the Bible is more often than not a thin veil covering just another case of "eww".
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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
And I know he must have a decent-sized fanbase, but I've met maybe two or three Hannity fans in my entire life. Even friends who like Limbaugh or O'Reilly tend to regard Hannity as kinda stupid.
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I intended to include all the idiot right-wing talking heads with that. ORly, Limbaugh, Beck, etc., anyone dogmatically spewing hatred as a representative of the dark far right.