It’s about respect and taste. If some sort of action isn’t taken by Gibson’s employers then they are sending an ugly message.

Ambrose Bierce in the devil’s dictionary:

Moral– that which is convenient

Immoral: that which is Inconvenient.

Maybe i’m just being pessimistic in my old age, but I think that is exactly the place our country has gotten to, and is a reason for our obvious decline in the world and our own estimation.

Ben, you make a good point.

If one is able to look beyond the facts, the studies, the evidence about gay lives and make a conscious choice to believe lies about gay people, it is just one step on the way to believing lies about anything. How can we have effective domestic policie if we choose to believe that abstinance eduction is working – in the face of all evidence to the contrary. How can we have the most effective military if we choose to believe that gay arabic linguists have to go if they are gay.

But these gay issues or social issues are only the ones most obvious to us. How many other decisions are made based on what is chosed to be believed rather than what is true?

Is it any wonder that we are embroiled in a war with no end in sight? Is it any wonder our economy is in a precarious state? Is it any wonder that breaking technology is coming from Asia and not the silicon valley.

Our leaders, President and Congress, Republicans and Democrats, are all choosing to close their eyes to the evidence before them and deciding to believe what is convenient.

I, too, have just emailed Fox. I hope it makes a difference.

Maybe i’m just being pessimistic in my old age, but I think that is exactly the place our country has gotten to, and is a reason for our obvious decline in the world and our own estimation.

The things that are said about gay people on a daily basis–things that are devoid of any basis, whether factual, logical, religous, observational, or just plain COMMON SENSE– are bad enough. That these lies, distortions, and half-truths not only hurt innocent gay people, but innocent straight people as well (Telephone call for Mrs. Haggard!!!), is far worse.

The thing that is perhaps saddest of all is the moral and political silence of our so many of our so-called leaders, who cannot be counted upon to stand up and say “THIS IS WRONG.”–let alone: “THIS IS WRONG. IT IS A LIE. IT IS BASED ON HATRED.”

Let alone: “THIS IS WRONG. IT IS A LIE. IT IS BASED ON HATRED. LET’S START HAVING AN HONEST NATIONAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PREJUDICE, WHETHER RELIGIOUS OR NOT, AGAINST GAY PEOPLE.”

We have had no one, as of old, who is willing to stand up for us without equivocation. Al Gore I admire, but he is not in office. Barack Obama is at least talking the talk; we’ll see how he walks. John Edwards is progressing. Ms. Clinton is no better than her husband, unfortunately. Mr. Kucinich I also admire.

And the Republicans: I could grant them the courage of their ocnvictions– if they had any convictions.