Salvation Army Major: Homosexuals Should Be Put to Death

If gays were killed?

You are sick

I'll never donate to them again.

It's all "tolerance and acceptance" until you hear a dissenting opinion, huh?

I may not agree with him, but I have no problem with him having his own opinion.

This is a little more than a dissenting opinion. What if someone said that about Christians, or Jews, or Black people?

This may come as a shock to you, but people do. Daily. (Oh, don't forget "white people" in your list, they get offered up as suggestions for those to be killed as well)

I have no idea, I don't work for the Salvation Army. Perhaps you should Google their contact information.

As far as how we treat them, it depends on who they are, doesn't it?

Every one of them has paid a price for their comments.

Oh yeah. They're suffering.
Limbaugh's loaded, Maher has so much money he can give a million to a man that is killing our country, Waters has been and still is in office for (how many?) years, Sharpton gets a paying gig on MSNBC.

You may want to look up the definition of "paid a price".

They have all been fired from their jobs or had some tangible consequence for their words. I'm not saying it's enough. I'm saying their reputations have been hurt by their comments, and the organizations they represented, have fired them.

They all seem to have recovered nicely.

Well, maybe you think we should put them to death?

No, but at least most of the ones I listed could definitely use a good ass kicking.

Pretty sure that's illegal too.

Does that concern you?
It never occurred to you that never every "law" equals "justice"?

I think people confuse "justice" with revenge. Justice means balance. Not just for the individual, but for society as a whole. It is a pipe-dream. If Rush Limbaugh (who I agree is a massive tool) says something which inspires Billy-Bob to go beat someone up, is Rush responsible? Not legally, but morally? Yeah, he is. So balance would say, punish Rush too. But to do that, sets a precident. Now let's say a satirist like Stephen Colbert says something, which is CLEARLY satirical; but someone doesn't get the joke; and they go beat someone up too. Is Colbert responsible? According to the precident set with Rush, yes he is. But is that justice? No, not really.
So we tweak and twist our norms and laws to be as balanced as possible, but true justice, is impossible. The ground shifts too much and too fast, to maintain absolute justice.

The more laws a society has, the more corrupt its citizens become.

Humanity is corrupt by nature. We're all self-serving. Some of us have a better handle on it than others, but we all have a self-preservation instinct. Laws help us to put the needs of all above the needs of the individual.

They also relieve the masses from having to "think" about consequences.
They can just say, "That's illegal" and that supposedly ends the argument.

It obviously doesn't END the argument. But hopefully the threat of consequences will be enough to discourage them from doing the things that are harmful.

No, if someone is mad enough; they're gonna hurt ya.

You are speaking in absolutes. Of course not all crime and harm will be prevented by laws and penalties. But laws and penalties can prevent much if not most of what would go on. If you think I'm wrong, read about the wild west some time. Vigilante justice is anything but just.

And when "the law" refuses to do it's JOB, it CREATES vigilantes.

Yay Anarchy.
Vigilantes have no respect for the law, no matter how well it does its job. They are self-appointed judges, juries and executioners. They are anarchists, and they are a far bigger threat to national security, than does any crime that they claim to fight.

As fascinating as you may feel this is; it is far from the topic of the poll.

They asked, I answered, I'm done.

He said he wanted gays to be killed

And I said, "I may not agree with him, but I have no problem with him having his own opinion."

I can assure you, this guy is not the representative for the Salvation Army. They don't want to kill gays.

Has he been fired yet?

Haven't heard anymore of the story, so I don't know. Don't care either.

If he hasn't been, then YES he IS the representative for the Salvation Army.

If I could I'd bitch slap him.

I don't exactly believe "F*ck the Bible", I just don't think it says the same thing it said thousands of years ago. The original Bible was probably WAY different.

Some times they get it right.

What a fine abortion you would have made.

How was yours?