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Calling The Scare-Mongers' Bluff

By The Daily Dish
Oct 15 2009, 8:39 AM ET

Dan Savage has one of his occasional brilliant ideas:

A group of liberal pastors should announce that they're going to mount the pulpit in a particular church at particular time and preach a series of vile, hateful sermonsone right after the otherattacking people of various races and ethnicities, attacking men and women in turn, attacking people for being white, yellow, and brown, and attacking people of other faiths. The semons should rely on biblical passages that have been historically used to justify attacks on and discrimination against people of different faiths, races, ethnicities, genders, etc., though the ages. Alert the authorities and challenge them to come and arrest all these pastors for preaching hate against groups who are already covered by federal hate crime laws.

And YouTube them to maximize the impact.



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