Audio from Michelle Shocked.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

6. I'm a bit confused by all of this.

I listened to the audio and read a transcript. It seemed to me that when she used the trigger phrases to which everyone is reacting, she used them in quotation marks. She seemed to be stating and protesting the views of the religious reactionaries, but (if true) this didn't come across as intended. The rant was a bit rambling, not carefully structured, and she kept switching viewpoints and alternately speaking her own apparent views and then those she was protesting, always from the first person. The result is at best somewhat incoherent, but I didn't get the impression that she was deranged or that she was supporting the views which everyone is now protesting.

I could be wrong about that, however. The whole matter is confusing, and I can understand how and why people are upset. If she was stating these ideas as her own, we should be upset about it. But I think we need to listen carefully to the source material, to be sure we are responding appropriately. She and her now alienated audience may actually be standing against the same foes.