By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--November 27, 2013
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You have to wonder how many of the stories you hear about "hate" and "intolerance" are either exaggerations or out-and-out lies. And when you do hear stories, it's wise to question them. I had a guy tell me recently that he had left a Christian church in protest of a policy in which they "did not allow gays to attend." Really? That seems like an awfully unlikely policy, given that the mission of a Christian church is to save the lost. Upon further questioning, it came out that what he really meant was that the church refused to preach a gospel that regards gay sex as acceptable before God, and some homosexuals in the pews felt unwelcome as a result. That is not in any way the same thing as what this guy originally claimed. So many of these stories about "hate" and "intolerance" dissolve under scrutiny, and we discover that they were concocted to serve a movement that needs such incidents so as to garner sympathy. And when they don't actually happen that often, because in the real world people aren't actually like that, they have to be invented out of thin air. Oh, by the way, Dayna Morales made bank out of this. She supposedly gave it to Wounded Warriors - unless she lied about that too. I guess when you're not that confident in the righteousness of your own life, you need to have haters to make you feel better by comparison. And if there aren't any - because people have better things to do than sit around judging you - then you have to manufacture them.
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