Reply #82: In all fairness,

[Bluenorthwest]

if they are not making noise against organized hatred and allowing thier own reputation and the reputation of their faith be described by bigots, in my eyes they are not pious at all, and passive tolerance is of little value when what it needed is action. Silent support might as well be opposition.
You are splitting hairs, and I get the point, but I hold that the religious folk who are not bigots have the responibility to speak up strongly, and if they do not they should be content to be thought of as the behavior of the active faith folk defines them. They have chosen both their identity and their silence. They are, in Christian terms, holding the coats of the bad guys.