If I were to try and manipulate people, what would be the most efficient way to do it?
Tell them that there is an all-powerful being that will reward them for worshipping him and doing as he states. Tell them that if they didn’t believe and do as he states, they will be forever punished. And tell them there is no way to prove the existence of the all-powerful being until after they die, a time when they obviously can’t report back to the living.
That’s the ticket. The perfect manipulation machine.
Now all I have to do is have them interpret the all-powerful being’s “words” to fit my view of the world and I’m all set.
So Laura Ingraham apologizes in the spirit of Holy Week. Does that make her eligible for heaven? God is so great. He makes us “behave good” after we’ve been bad.
As editor of The Dartmouth Review, she had a reporter go undercover at an LGBTQ meeting on Dartmouth campus and published the transcript including the attendees.[8] She was criticised for forcibly outing them to friends and family.[8] At the start of the meeting, an oath of confidentiality was read whereby participants in the meeting were assured that information from the meeting would not be made public.[8] Ingraham claimed confidentiality did not apply, because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the outing of the gay students as a “freedom of the press issue”.[8]
During her time at the Dartmouth Review, Ingraham was known to harbor homophobic views.[9] In 1997, she apologized for her homophobia.[9] Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having “the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable”, claiming “she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual.”[10] In 1997, she wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing “the dignity, fidelity, and courage” with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS. Ingraham has stated that she supports civil unions, but still believes that marriage “is between a man and a woman”.[11]
If i were Laura Ingraham’s brother I would disown her. I don’t ubderstand people who enable relatives who have reprehensible values. Laura Ingraham may be an act on Fox but she’s being hurtful to people like her own brother.
Parents and relatives need their gay famlies more than the other way around.
I don’t understand people who need to come to terms with something perfectly normal. And if they do, that’s their own problem.
