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Tolbert: Back Atcha, KnowThyNeighbor.org
Last week, a Massachusetts-based gay rights group launched a new website, KnowThyNeighbor.org, with a searchable database of the names and addresses of all those Arkansans who had signed the Act 1 petition to ban foster parenting by gay and cohabiting couoples. The site stirred up a little ruckus, and the head of the Arkansas Family Council, Jerry Cox, denounced the move as an intimidation tactic intended to have a “chilling effect” on petition drives.
Today, The Tolbert Report decides that turnabout is fair play and posts an online searchable database of those who contributed to Arkansas Families First, an advocacy organization established to fight Act 1. He’s posted his explanation here. Let the games begin.
Also, Pat Lynch, who opposed Act 1, weighs in with a timely Arkansas Democrat-Gazette column arguing that KnowThyNeighbor’s “hardball response will only reinforce those who are already hopeless bigots and harden many who might have been convinced otherwise.”
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Pat Lynch is a moron. He says “hardball response will only reinforce those who are already hopeless bigots and harden many who might have been convinced otherwise.â€
If we are bigots because we don’t agree with homo marriage, using the same logic, doesn’t that make him a bigot because he doesn’t agree with those who oppose homo marriage?
The answer is YES!!
May 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Good Answer Rick,
Am I a bigot because I choose to believe differently that Mr. Lynch? My choice is to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. Mr. Lynch’s choice is to believe otherwise. I am willing to tolerate his right to believe that, obviously Mr. Lynch does not afford the same. So who is the bigot?