Encouragement: The Victory Lap
From Erick Erickson, over at RedState, where there is more:
It started with gay rights activists enraged over me saying I wasn’t worried the scouts letting in gay scouts would make my son gay. Rather, I was worried about my son living in a world that doesn’t think homosexual practice is a sin.
It ended with me making all sorts of people mad for defending the traditional family structure.
From death threats to insults, it is just the usual mess one gets into by uttering unpopular opinions. Some of those upset and disagreeing were quite reasonable and we just disagree. But the loudest disagreement came from demanders for tolerance who are the least tolerant people on the planet. Likewise, the most self-righteous tend to have the least humor.
Through the course of the week, in the midst of these conversations, my wife has been bed ridden with illness, we’ve had friends staying with us in the process of their move out of town, the kids have been home from school, and I still have three jobs to balance.
It’s been a bit crazy.
Several people, including Laura Ingraham, have said I should not retweet all the hate, but I think it is important to see what peddlers of tolerance say when they cannot tolerate a dissenting opinion. And frankly, after a few days of some pretty nasty invective hurled my way, it also helps draw in a few reinforcements to an otherwise one man operation on my twitter timeline.
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