no but why would a guy use an avatar of a girl? I mean I can see where a person might want to use a flower to represent them.........or maybe a fire hose or a peacock, possible a kitchen roach or maybe something astrological........

I appreciate your willingness to take an even tone - and perhaps to recognize your own anger (when it arises) and choose not to express it. That is a mark of maturity - one that this young man was not capable of expressing at least within the context of the rally. I would like to think that under less combustible circumstances that same young man would, in fact, behave more appropriately. I could be wrong - he could simply be a jerk of indeterminate political stripe - an independent jerk.

However, true compassion draws no lines - no boundaries. True compassion expresses a unity with all people regardless of their beliefs and expression thereof. True compassion does not say "there but for the grace of god go i." True compassion simply says: "there go i."

Finally sir, one could as easily question the judgment, motivation and intent of the man with the bible coming down to attend a rally which was sure to be populated by many young and activist GLBT folk. Some such as myself would at least wonder if he was not hoping to elicit just such a response and then could as others have done " "innocently" blame the poor behavior upon some ideological position.

see how ugly those Gays are! They have no morals no compassion. They mercilessly attack this poor innocent man who was doing nothing to incite them - just sitting in the middle of a GLBT rally quitely waving a red .....err i mean quietly reading a bible.

It would be difficult to find a better example of faith as the pretending to know something one does not know. The writers of the books that later became known as the New Testament knew the end of the world was near, but they were pretending to know something they didn't know. Had they performed the same calculation Bishop Usher did, they would have said god was testing man fo 4000 years.

Ever since and in every generation I would not be surprised to find someone pretending to know something they don't know and predicting the imminent end of the world. Such predictions are so common they have become an instantly recognized joke in cartoons with the ragged, bearded guy in a robe waving the sign saying "THE END IS NEAR.". And I've seen bumper sticker claiming "I've survived 5 apocalypses!". These were common last year after Harold Camping pretended to know the end of the world was coming TWICE in one year.

You are in good - if wrong - company.

Why so much hate! Why do all none beleavers hate us belevers so much? We love them Our Bible teaches us to Love the sinner but hate the sin. We are not trying to stop you from beliveing or not believing what you want. Youll never win the argument or change anyones mind by your raveing and ranting. The same with politics. A libreal will always be a libreal and a Conservative will always be a concervative. Both sides are just wasting their time when they could be out taken photographs. I think they should outlaw those two subjects from chit chat. Just my thoughs. Dose anyone feel the same way???

Blurreyed could it be because so many errors are made by the right wing media that media matters just doesn't have time to get to the few that are made by other outlets?

dtcracer: In the world of public debate one does not need a gun to intimidate only reasoned argument.

As a person on the left side of the political spectrum I can assure I have no fear of my gun jumping out of the holster. Nor to many of those I go shooting with on a regular basis. They and myself are just sane and know all about guns.

What do they say, big gun little dick....

That's your prerogative. All I ask is that you keep that belief to yourself and not try to inject it into the secular world including that of the government of this country. Once you start that then your beliefs begin to infringe upon those who do not share them and that is a violation of the constitution and wrong!

Point I am making is that it's easy to stereotype others, it's easy to lump all liberals or all conservatives into groups and then simply refer to that group as if - key phrase "as if" all people in said groups think the same - are the same......My point is that if you have to relate to me as an individual - and vice versa - than I cannot simply stereotype you and neither can I be stereotyped by you (editorial you).

But that's exactly what we do - what the media does - Stereotype and group......it's easier to dehumanize and if we have learned anything about war and killing is that it's helpful to think of the "enemy" as less than human...........so my point is see me as an individual and I will see you in equal light.....

You may not believe you are a bigot, you sure seem like one to me.
Lets test my theory, you say you believe that he is a Muslem (which is rediclus). Why do you care? Do you beleive a Muslem can be president of the united states?

What happened in the past is of no difference.

The President has been in office for almost 4 years. We know who he is.

Some like his policies some don't. He has been veted.

This nonsense and garbage about his birthplace and college transcripts is an attempt to deligetimize his right to be in office. I strongly believe it is an expression of not only latent but blatant racism and bigotry. Something I want to believe is not as prevalent as these people are expressing. To me, it is as if the Klan is burning a cross on the lawn of the White House.

As a person with a liberal mind I am not interested in being stereotyped, pigeon - holed, lumped into a group or merely overlooked as an individual. So, that said, please tell me how my mind works.