Here is a great perspective on the rhetoric of intolerance when it comes to same-sex issues.
The wordsmithing Brits behind the Oxford Dictionary define “hate” as “hostile actions motivated by intense dislike or prejudice.” But words take on new meanings as people speak them, often deriving more from the context of their usage than from their actual definitions.
The word “hate” has become one of many such grammatical casualties as some now use it to describe the positions of any who vary from emerging cultural norms. Among offenders are gay activists who increasingly define anyone who believes that marriage should be applied only in the context of monogamous, heterosexual union as anti-gay and hateful. But is a belief in traditional marriage an inherently hateful posture?
The Washington Times just released an article by Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council on Apple’s censorship of the Manhattan Declaration App and the Exodus iPhone App. 