Comments on: Ontario Liberals - The Party of Intolerance http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/ Conservative musings - formerly Joanne's Journey Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:28:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Möbius http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/comment-page-1/#comment-15902 Möbius Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:48:00 +0000 http://joanne.cynasta2.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/#comment-15902 Anon says: "At least Tory bought the controversy early, like Harper with SSM."<br/><br/>Except Harper had to deal with SSM to get elected. Tory invented a solution to a problem we didn't know we had. Anon says: “At least Tory bought the controversy early, like Harper with SSM.”

Except Harper had to deal with SSM to get elected. Tory invented a solution to a problem we didn’t know we had.

]]> By: Joanne (True Blue) http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/comment-page-1/#comment-15895 Joanne (True Blue) Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:25:00 +0000 http://joanne.cynasta2.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/#comment-15895 <i>There are my disgusting progressive liberal views for ya!</i><br/><br/>And you're always welcome to vent them here, Rosie. ;) There are my disgusting progressive liberal views for ya!

And you’re always welcome to vent them here, Rosie. ;)

]]> By: Rosie http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/comment-page-1/#comment-15894 Rosie Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:19:00 +0000 http://joanne.cynasta2.com/2007/09/07/ontario-liberals-the-party-of-intolerance/#comment-15894 Liberals are so open-minded their brains fall out? Give me a break. That is so cliche and lame. This is a non-partisan issue, as you can see there are many Tory supporters denouncing this as well. Fortunately (for the Liberals) it does provide some ammunition, and Tory's PR guys should have known this was shaky ground to begin with. Its the fear that creationism will replace evolution in science class, when evolution "theory" have been tried and tested in the laboratory setting, using scientific methods. I don't remember being indoctrinated in high school that the Adam and Eve story is wrong. Only that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming and at the time (I was a Christian back then) I didn't have any cognitive dissonance juxtaposing the creationist story with the scientific evidence. Plenty of academics are devout but accept the science behind evolution. I don't understand why this is such a black and white and divisive issue. <br/><br/>Secondly, the idea of separate schools for every religion is a socialist nightmare. I am quite surprised that more of you aren't against this idea. Its not very "conservative" to be building hundreds of new schools when the ones we have are already underfunded. Really, what was he thinking? <br/><br/>Finally, even if I WERE religious, I would want my child exposed to diversity. Letting my child out into the harsh world after being sheltered in a religious setting surrounded by people who think exactly the same for 12 years might not, in my opinion, prepare them for real world. You will get young adults from every religion that are completely intolerant to alternate points of view and I don't think its good for society as a whole.<br/><br/>I want to make it clear that Christianity, taught in the setting of a "World religions" class, would not bother me a bit. I would want my child to learn about all the religions so that they could make up their minds themselves. I learned a lot about religion in my art history classes as well. <br/><br/>oh-and its not just the "evil evangelicals" that scare us progressives, its all types of extremists, including muslims and otherwise that would like society to function according to their own narrow and unbendable view.<br/><br/>There are my disgusting progressive liberal views for ya! Liberals are so open-minded their brains fall out? Give me a break. That is so cliche and lame. This is a non-partisan issue, as you can see there are many Tory supporters denouncing this as well. Fortunately (for the Liberals) it does provide some ammunition, and Tory’s PR guys should have known this was shaky ground to begin with. Its the fear that creationism will replace evolution in science class, when evolution “theory” have been tried and tested in the laboratory setting, using scientific methods. I don’t remember being indoctrinated in high school that the Adam and Eve story is wrong. Only that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming and at the time (I was a Christian back then) I didn’t have any cognitive dissonance juxtaposing the creationist story with the scientific evidence. Plenty of academics are devout but accept the science behind evolution. I don’t understand why this is such a black and white and divisive issue.

Secondly, the idea of separate schools for every religion is a socialist nightmare. I am quite surprised that more of you aren’t against this idea. Its not very “conservative” to be building hundreds of new schools when the ones we have are already underfunded. Really, what was he thinking?

Finally, even if I WERE religious, I would want my child exposed to diversity. Letting my child out into the harsh world after being sheltered in a religious setting surrounded by people who think exactly the same for 12 years might not, in my opinion, prepare them for real world. You will get young adults from every religion that are completely intolerant to alternate points of view and I don’t think its good for society as a whole.

I want to make it clear that Christianity, taught in the setting of a “World religions” class, would not bother me a bit. I would want my child to learn about all the religions so that they could make up their minds themselves. I learned a lot about religion in my art history classes as well.

oh-and its not just the “evil evangelicals” that scare us progressives, its all types of extremists, including muslims and otherwise that would like society to function according to their own narrow and unbendable view.

There are my disgusting progressive liberal views for ya!

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