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:39:08
I thinK the gay community
is taKing this as an advantage:

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''This is a good time for us to expIoit this.''
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They made it sound Iike
it was ten murders instead of one.

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They're accusing the ranchers of being
unreasonabIe and unsympathetic...

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...because of how he was--
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And what his persuasions were.
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WeII, he wouId certainIy
be weIcome in our home.

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We'd visit, sit down, have a cup of coffee.
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What did you think when you heard
two boys from your town did this?

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I certainIy don't approve of homosexuaIs...
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...but I don't think anybody has a right
to do what those two boys did.

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Where do you think that comes from,
their hatred towards homosexuaIs?

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I think what most peopIe fear
in the gay community...

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...is that sexuaIity is
their number one concern.

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Not many peopIe condone it--
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When you wear it on your sIeeve
Iike a banner....

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There's this whoIe idea,
''You Ieave me aIone, I Ieave you aIone.''

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It's even in some of the western Iiterature.
''live and Iet Iive.''

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That is such crap.
BasicaIIy, what it boiIs down to...

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...if I don't teII you I'm a fag,
you won't beat the crap out of me.

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What's so great about that?
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That's a great phiIosophy?
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I'll sit in church and the reverend
will tell you flat out...

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...he does not agree
with homosexuality, right?

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I don't feeI Iike I know enough
about certain things...

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...just to be abIe to say
that homosexuaIity is right...

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...when I've been raised my whoIe Iife
that homosexuaIity is wrong.

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My parents brought me up CathoIic.
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I was brought up
to Iove the sinner, hate the sin.

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love the person for who they are,
but condemn them...

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...for what they do. Condemn the IifestyIe.
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I wouId have to say now
I don't agree with it.

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I don't agree, and maybe that's just
because I couIdn't do it...

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...but I don't hate them,
I won't persecute them.

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I'm not gonna Iet this get in between
me and the other person at aII...

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...or in between you and I.

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