>My concern is that we're seeing a burgeoning new age of (for lack of a better term) PC McCarthyism. Orson Scott Card has the temerity to object to homosexuality on a scriptural / moral basis (from the perspective of Mormonism). John C. Wright did the same thing from a >perspective of Catholicism. Now Elizabeth Moon wrote a reasoned opinion piece about getting along in the wake of 9/11 where we aren't killing each other over religious / cultural things, and instead of concentrating on that, people are concentrating on some of her language on the way to her conclusion, suggesting in the process of some non-analytical thinking that she is this horrible bigot (she's Christian! she's Texan!) who >deserves to die, or at least should be uninvited from a Convention that's known for being edgy and counter-cultural.
In fairness though? How would we respond to a Christian themed gathering rescinding an invite to someone for say, being pro-gay? Would we be arguing that it was the chill of political correctness or McCarthy-ism?
Thom
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