Hatred We Can't Ignore
Filed by: Terrance Heath
December 14, 2008 5:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/hatred_we_cant_ignore.php

If nothing else, this election revealed how far we have come and how far we have yet to go.

Yes, there's the irony of celebrating the historic election of Barack Obama while simultaneously mourning the passage of Proposition 8 and the other anti-gay ballot initiatives in Florida, Oklahoma, and Arizona. But this started way before November 4th. It started, this time, with a decision -- conscious or not -- by the McCain campaign to play to the basest of its base.

I said to myself at the time that, whether McCain won or lost, there would be a price for that tactic; one that John McCain would be among the last to ever have to pay. As president, there would have been no way he could have united the country. And even in the aftermath of his loss, we will continue to live with the belligerent bigotry and racism he and his running mate stirred up from their bottom-of-the-barrel base.

Hate comes in many colors, who burned down Palin's church? What we need is compassion for other people's beliefs.

Let me go on record here as being against burning churches.  Not that the building in Wasilla was some historic example of such, not like its Nortre Dame or something.  But kids, burning churches is wrong, and don't do it.  It's the devil's work - that and bad electrical contracting - and you shant have no part in that.  Bad Ju-Ju.