The people who would drive him into moral exile seem to be afflicted with an almost comically high sensitivity to offense. A school posting a link to a fair-minded profile of an alum on the other side of an issue, with no endorsement of it, caused people “pain” and “anguish”? You’ve got to be kidding.
Like the students on college campuses who prefer to run and hide from the “trauma” of being exposed to arguments they don’t like, those who claim to be wounded by a link to a story about someone who disagrees with them sound an awful lot like crybabies.
By all means, fight for your rights. Work to win the public argument. But then accept that the world is a big place, not everyone agrees with you, and those on the other side have as much right to make their (losing) case as you do.
That’s what a genuinely liberal society is supposed to be all about. Do those who favor gay marriage really want to win by stamping out dissent and driving into the wilderness every person who holds a contrary position?
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