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...BGLSA demands not just tolerance, but acceptance. One of their posters equate a biblical, "natural law" critique of homosexuality with "biblical" rationalizations of racism, implying that anyone who disapproves of their lifestyles is a pin-headed fundamentalist bigot. No matter that not even the most conservative theologian would ever use a biblical argument against mixed-race marriages. No matter that some very rational people discern a distinction between race and sexual orientation...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: How Liberals Made AALARM | 10/30/1990 | See Source »

...light of the recent controversy, Thompson now says he was misquoted. But what if he was not? The corporate response can be deemed appropriate only if Thompson is truly a bigot...

Author: By Jonathan E. Morgan, | Title: `Getting In' Is No Gain for Blacks | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

...strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Peninsula an Island? Conservatives Defend New Mag | 3/20/1990 | See Source »

Once, in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. told some black college students about the Aristotelian bigot. This bigot, said King, constructed a syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; therefore, the Negro is not a man. The black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and 180,000 other blacks who served in the Civil War, took that syllogism and burned it to ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Manhood and The Power of GLORY | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Rooney denies making the statement about blacks. He says he was talking more about "class," which applies to whites as well. "I'm just furious," he says, "about the notion that I am a racist or a bigot." The Advocate says it made no tape recording of the conversation. But, a spokesman says, "we stand by our reporter 100%, and CBS chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Zapping A Curmudgeon (Andy Rooney) | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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