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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 05:47 AM
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46. The use of religion to justify some personal bigotry...
Example from yesterday: At my new (dead-end) job, a co-worker, a manager, and I got into a 'discussion', wherein the manager tried to explain why some people (herself included) might feel 'religiously justified' to believe that "race mixing" is (biblically) wrong.

The co-worker (who's bi-racial, and the only non-white working there) was livid that such a position could even be defensible, and asked more than once what she, as someone who "wasn't JUST white or black" was supposed to do?

Though i tried to give examples to contradict the manager's 'bible b.s.', by reminding her that by those standards, SLAVERY was still o.k., and that she should be at home and subservient to her husband, etc..., in a few minutes i found myself getting too angry to even communicate, and had to just leave the situation (and find some things to re-arrange in the cooler).

:grr:

I'm sure that this manager will eventually make the same comment about all of the queers on her crew (there are more than a few of us)...

I'm just waiting...

:mad:
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