Who's tent's not big enough......

[Perky]

Why is it nullifying bigotry to suggest as a matter of personal belief that Homosexuality is a choice? You may utterly disagree with McGlurkin, but I suspect that if this view was expressed in scientific, rather than religious terms, that the hostility would be far less.

I would respectfully submit that it is not that Mr. Obama tent is not big enough, it is that for some of you the tent he is weaving is way too big.


I would respectfully submit the hostility we have seen over the last several days has less to do with McGlurkin's shallow and pietistic statements then it does with the fear of allowing people of differing views to your own into the Big Tent of the Democratic Party.

Many of you, for reasons know only to do you are deeply suspicious or fearful of anything religious somehow contaminating the fabric of the party or the progressive identity.

I would respectfully submit that for some of you the statements made in the last few days are just as bigoted and intolerant of religiously-centered views as you suggest both McGlurkin and by extension, Obama are of the homosexual community.

We have to find a way to be more tolerant of divergent views.

I offer this not as a means of excusing McGlurkin views, but as a challenge to all of us to be more accommodating of other views, whether they are scientifically based, religiously reasoned, politically motivated, foolish nonsense, factually accurate or strongly held opinion.