Religion
In reply to the discussion: Conservative Christian parents fight for right to discriminate against LGBT students [View all]dmallind
(10,437 posts)Very real situation from the last 2-3 years, repeated thousands of times on DU with no complaint from you or anyone else.
Not all Blue Dogs are blocking legislation but all the people blocking it are Blue Dogs. An exactly analogous situation to religious people, only religious people but not all religious people pushing anti-gay indoctrination. There are only three options
1) It is correct to say Blue Dogs are blocking the legislation, and therefpre must be correct to say religious people are pushing an anti-gay agenda
2) It is incorrect to say either, and you, and others, are selectively and hypocritically deciding to only complain about this when it's religious people doing something bad, but not complain about it when it's BDs, or Republicans, or corporations, or rich people or the many many hundreds of times such phrasing is used at DU daily.
3) You want a special pleading exemption where people are expected to spell out the only-but-not-all nature of a group doing something bad when that group is religious