I’m not sure why right-wingers like Jim Hoft think that the left is supposed to be “tolerant” of people who are anti-gay activists. I suppose he’d like us to think of him as someone who simply has a difference of opinion, rather than as someone who promotes bigotry against gays and lesbians and who doesn’t seem to care how it impacts the lives of people when they are discriminated against under the cover of law.
The people who are losing television shows and their lofty spots as CEO’s and their basketball franchises are all hateful people who have said hateful things or taken actions to affirmatively discriminate against people. They can say what they want, but we are under no obligation to give them our money or to give our money to their advertisers.
I think what terrifies these folks is that they’re are being defined out of polite society. I’d say that that’s progress, except a polite society wouldn’t include college presidents who would even consider asking Condi Rice or other high-ranking Bush administration officials to give a commencement address. People of conscience still have work to do to make this a country that turns away from bigotry, torture, and needless war.
