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hyphenate's JournalAm I a bigot?
I think I could be considered a bigot. I guess, because my definition of bigotry means that I'm persecuting someone as a result of their differences. And I do admit that. I hate people who see themselves as superior, who stand for offensive ideals, who try to remove my rights from me. I despise people who believe in things that I consider horrendous: forcing values on others, forcing religious views on others, forcing their will on me, and trying to police things that I consider private, and none of their fucking business. If I am intolerant of all that, and I can put a label on this, then I am probably as intolerant of them, as they are of me.
This works both ways. The truth however is this: however my prejudice against their actions might be, I am fighting for those things that they hate about me, and not toward the people themselves. I don't give a good goddamn if they're pink, have three heads, read the bible literally, or how they practice their religion. That's their business. I believe that they have the right to make their own decisions in their own life, but that when they trespass against me and my beliefs, they have crossed a very tangible line. They are going above and beyond the rules of liberty, and they cannot be let free of answering for that. They are not going to keep trespassing on my liberties, because they are wrong. They are killers--they try to rescind what the Constitution has guaranteed me, they are killing my FREEDOM. They are evil and vile, and their crimes of subjugating others must be punished.
If that makes me a bigot, I am proud to wear that title. If they are going to keep trying to make me hate them, they will succeed. But as I write these words, I am still free, even if they they try to quash my liberties, I can still tell the world of their incursions. Let us all remember that religion is a choice, not a requisite to living in America.
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