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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18129)	7/13/2001 10:54:51 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't think anyone is running roughshod. That sounds brutal. Maybe it's more a case of hypersensitivity on the other side. Sometimes we just have to suck it up and move on. It's extremely difficult to draw a bright line where insult and hypersensitivity meet. I continually try to do so, but I realize how hazy it is. I think, though, that I can pretty safely say where the line isn't. People who refuse to acknowledge the possibility of hypersensitivity on their part are out of bounds, as are people who refuse to acknowledge the possibility that their tradition may not be fair. I don't know how many times I've sat down with black or female colleagues and tried to disabuse them of their sense of insult telling them that I had witnessed the event and that I thought they were over-reacting. I have never had occasion to engage someone hell-bent on praying at football games. I still feel quite confident in saying, while there are many legitimate differences of opinion on this subject, that anyone who reacts to another's questioning of the prayer by claiming discrimination against Christians is over-reacting. It reminds me of the Levy/Condit business. Condit is entitled to try to hide an affair to a point, and that point is the disappearance of Levy. At that point, the matter is no longer "about" Condit but "about" Levy. Those that claim discrimination against Christians only see this as about them, and I take exception to that level of selfishness. I've only been to one small town high school football game In your previous post you volunteered a defense of conservatives as though I had singled that group out as the bad guy in this. My response was intended to convey that I don't know what label to put on the bad guys, but I wouldn't think conservative would be appropriate. There are plenty of conservatives who have no football/prayer tradition, who wouldn't want to have one, and many who wouldn't be caught dead praying under any circumstances. Apparently you aren't able to categorize this interest group either. I thought you might since you're from that part of the world and have shown an interest in the issue. Karen