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By: Kristin Catron
Issue date: 11/2/09 Section: Mail Call
From Kristin Catron, senior animal science major
I have never felt personally affronted by any article in The Battalion until "Holding back the Hate." As a Christian, I was offended by this article. Not because the author called out those guilty of using religion as justification for their hate, those people are very much in the wrong and I agree fully, but that the piece exerts no effort to clarify that it is not targeting all Christians in the piece. I'm all for freedom of speech, but to use an article about hate to be hateful? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? The author should have left personal issues aside instead of underhandedly attacking a faith. The article should clarify the column refers to the confused, overly zealous "Bible Thumpers" who take God's word far too seriously and to the extreme. The views I have on homosexuality are shared by many of the Christian faith, God does not hate homosexuals, In fact, he loves them, as they are still His children. But he does not stand for the acts and lives they lead. I have homosexual friends, and I still care greatly for them, regardless. My religious beliefs aside, these people deserve to be treated as people and respected as such. On the other side, a Christian is a person, too. I would like to believe that the author's intentions weren't motivated by an underlying distaste for the Christian faith, but that is the impression I, and others, have received. We are all here together, so why try to make it harder by spreading hate and intolerance?
I have never felt personally affronted by any article in The Battalion until "Holding back the Hate." As a Christian, I was offended by this article. Not because the author called out those guilty of using religion as justification for their hate, those people are very much in the wrong and I agree fully, but that the piece exerts no effort to clarify that it is not targeting all Christians in the piece. I'm all for freedom of speech, but to use an article about hate to be hateful? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? The author should have left personal issues aside instead of underhandedly attacking a faith. The article should clarify the column refers to the confused, overly zealous "Bible Thumpers" who take God's word far too seriously and to the extreme. The views I have on homosexuality are shared by many of the Christian faith, God does not hate homosexuals, In fact, he loves them, as they are still His children. But he does not stand for the acts and lives they lead. I have homosexual friends, and I still care greatly for them, regardless. My religious beliefs aside, these people deserve to be treated as people and respected as such. On the other side, a Christian is a person, too. I would like to believe that the author's intentions weren't motivated by an underlying distaste for the Christian faith, but that is the impression I, and others, have received. We are all here together, so why try to make it harder by spreading hate and intolerance?
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