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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: epicure who wrote (346832)1/23/2003 4:51:45 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Did he? Well, I guess I cannot go back, now that they are gone. Certainly, that would alter the equation, offensiveness- wise. (I still think that the punishment is too harsh).

The funny thing is that JLA is one of the moderates on the issue of homosexuality, and has himself protested inflammatory language about it, and suggested a live and let live attitude. The use of the epithet was only tangentially related to gays, I am sure.

Oh well, you snooze, you lose, I guess I cannot make a thorough examination of the matter at this point. I just wonder if the ill- will generated by all of this does not markedly exceed the very tiny contribution to hate that one might allege of the original provocation.......
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