… and all the other sci-fi level creepiness in the following.
I understand that people are entitled entitled to their opinions, even hateful, toxic, hypocritical ones– as long as they are not acted upon.
How do we measure this when enough is enough? There is blatant hate: race, sexual orientation, and gender bigotry. And then there is the darkness that (excuse the hyperbole), like a wedge between the doors of hell, isn’t enough to mind but inevitably widens and holds people hostage until the last airs of common sense dissipate and all that’s left is a drone with Stockholm Syndrome.
We think pro-lifers are all cool because we know them and they’re our friends and family and celebrity role models. They’re so mainstream that we don’t think twice about the protesters that intimidate women’s clinic patients. We shrug to hear about a couple of death threats and HATE letters that creep into certain inboxes. We’ve come to the point where it’s typical for politicians giving the OK to hate-filled, misogynistic (don’t worry, I’ve used the right word) pharmacists to continue to be hate-filled, misogynistic pharmacists.
It’s not. It’s really not.
Because these mephitic thoughts are contagious. They are transferred and multiplied through naive children. They are preached to the point of exhaustion in church. They are taught as a moral prerogative. Facts are covered up or mixed up. (Plan B does not equal medical abortion!) And this HATE is allowed to fester and grow in the name of freedom and babies.
