It's really refreshing to see where DU as a whole actually stands.

[theHandpuppet]

7. On the other hand...

I don't mean to be Debbie Downer here, but as a gay person just how tolerant am I supposed to be on DU? Another fluff PR piece to LBN about his Popeness having lunch in the cafeteria (earth shattering, I tell you) followed by the usual litany of Francislove. This man is an avowed bigot who continues to preach against the rights of women and LGBTs, rights that affect our very lives, but I'm just supposed to be polite and tolerant and not remind folks that each and every time they do this they might as well smack me in the face. Just turn the other cheek, perhaps?

If Francis was a racist rather than "just" a misogynist and homophobe such adulation would qualify for an automatic deletion. I know what message that sends to me - as long as homophobia can be excused as part of one's religious belief, let religious freedom ring!

Sorry... just not feeling so magnanimous right now, considering my rights as a woman and gay person are currently under unrelenting assault by religious conservatives.