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Commenter JNOV made a video about gay civil rights. Parts of it are pretty graphic, and she makes her point in a powerful way. A comment from YouTube is reprinted after the jump.
Here’s what a “patriot” had to say:
omiolo (9 hours ago)
you guys have to be the BIGGEST hypocrites.
You vandalize churches, send terrorist letters, create mobs, prohibit people from worshiping (an actual civil right), harass people for voting and treat the Mormons like the Nazi’s treated the Jews.
then to complain because you are NOT allowed to REDEFINE marriage?
SCARY!
JNOV fires back:
Free speech is limited by the government: time, place and manner restrictions, and as long as someone abides by these restrictions, I am satisfied. I do not support vandalizing churches or using fear or intimidation of imminent harm to prohibit people from engaging in lawful acts, like walking into an abortion clinic. Mormons are NOT being persecuted like the Jews. They never have been. That’s a faith-promoting fiction and an insult to the Jews, gays, Roma and others who died in the Shoa.
Oh, and the right to marry *is* a civil liberty. You have more rights than those enumerated in the Constitution. And I’m not just calling out the Mormons — the Bible has been used to justify the enslavement, segregation and subjugation of African Americans for centuries. We can’t stand by and let it be used to harm GLBTQ folks.
