Richard Dawkins: bigoted against those with Down's syndrome?

[freshwest]

45. Sorry, but since I go and visit such people and advocate for them, your doubt is wrong.

Specifically, I meet with three people who move about in a get up just like the one in the picture.

But feel free to not respect me for actually meeting these folks a couple of times a week and knowing them as they go through life. I love them, they are not statistics and they are just a file of symptoms or diseases. And I know those who are also bedridden who survive past regular retirement age. Yes, they do exist, perhaps not in your world, I guess.

You do not know who I know, do not see what I see and you do not need to accept that I feel as strongly as I do about caring for those I know and love.

No, they aren't geniuses like Hawkin. But they love their lives. I can't believe a progressive website, that is supposed to be for the support of the disabled, is so eager to give this arrogant man a pass and let him use the word 'immoral' so carelessly. It effects policy when you demean people.

Hawkin, despite his intellectual capacity is disabled and is of the type for whom the ADA and other accomodations are made. I live in housing equipped for people who are mobility, intellectually and in other ways impaired. Not all are born disabled, either.

I see these people everyday and the love they have and their love for others. It's not about atheism for me, it's about freedom to choose to give or not give birth.

I support both options, and I would never call either of them 'immoral.' That is a real trigger for me here. I don't accept RW religionists attacking those they call 'immoral' and I won't put up with from those who don't espouse religion.

I'm talking about real people and not famous ones who are effected by this kind of arrogance.

I'm disappointed, but what else is new. A lot of folks are discouraged when they attempt to put real people above famous people.

EOM.