Annie wrote:

<< I don't read it. But are you going to demand that I never participate in discussion, a discussion I was *asked* to participate in? Neil asked me a question. I answered it. Are you going to demand that Neil shut up too? >>

I never demanded that you (or Neil or anyone) "shut up." I simply pointed

out

that your comments were taken as an insult against my personal lifestyle choices. I believe several others agreed that it was an insult. I don't

think

you (or many other Christians on this list) would like it if I aired my personal views on Christianity

Perhaps they might. Not everyone on the lyst thinks other people's viewpoints are "sick," you know. I don't agree with Kathryn's beliefs, but because she presented them politely and neatly, I read her post and mentally agreed to disagree. If you were able to air your views on Christianity politely and in a rational way, people might well listen. But calling other people sick and slagging off their beliefs out of hand isn't going to win you any politeness awards.

and how adding any hint of it to B7 characters would be "twisting" them or committing "character assassination" against them. As someone else pointed out, the B7 universe was canonically non-Christian in nature (in fact, we don't know that they practiced any religion whatsoever). Trying to apply Christian morality to the show IS twisting it.

But the difference is that Kathryn has never tried to apply Christian morality to B7. She has never insisted that Christianity on B7 is canonical. She has never, to my knowledge, attempted to foist a story in which the Liberator crew are all devout Christians onto other people. She has said repeatedly that she respects that other people have different belief systems and feelings about homosexuality. You, on the other hand, keep insisting that the rest of us either appreciate slash fiction or shut up. Which of you two is the more tolerant, I ask you?

Why don't you try putting the shoe on the other foot and think about how YOU might feel. If you can.

Why don't you try being polite to Kathryn for a change, Annie? You might find people don't react to your posts quite so angrily then.

Shane

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