Andrew Sullivan and free speech

I have been reading through Andrew Sullivan's blog today, as a result of having to read an article of his arguing about same-sex marriage for my 'English Writing:Marriage and Culture' class. I have truly enjoyed looking at his different entries; for a conservative gay man, who is deepy religious, something I'm definitely not, he has a unique and refreshing logic that you don't see often. Another thing about his blog was that I'd actually seen it before; it was mentioned in one of the gay magazines I get, Advocate or Out, not sure which, but they had mentioned checking it out. I wrote it down, but never did. Being in college, I have way more than enough reading to do. But I'm glad that I've finally taken the time to look at it. Now to just do that with the other blogs I've seen mentioned.
Anywho, I was going to talk about an article Sullivan had about President Bush's blatant abuse of power, but seeing as that will just get my blood pressure up needlessly, I figured I'd focus on another one that discusses the decreasing free speech going on in the world.
I'm sure everyone has heard about the Scientology episode of South Park. I,bmyself, don't watch the show 'cause I find it to be a tad crude for my tastes, but it does worry me that television companies have pulled the episode. As Sullivan said in his article, South Park "has mocked Catholicism, Mormonism, evangelicanism, and even featured a cartoon Mohammed as a super-hero" not to mention the show mocks all other lifestyles, races and walks of life. Why should Scientology get off the hook? And then Isaac Hayes quitting the show, "accusing it of religious bigotry" makes absolutely no sense to me, especially when a month beforehand he showed he had no problem with it. From the looks of it, either someone told him to make a big deal out of it, OR he was fine so long as the show didn't mock anything related to him. If you can't take the heat, then stay out of the kitchen. I don't like it when people dish out all kind of crap to you, and then cry when you give them a little dose of their own medicine. But anyways, I agree with Sullivan that the fact that companies are willing to yank the episode off the air shows somewhat troubling times ahead. People in lofty/high positions open themselves up to mockery and they just need to learn to take it. If they don't want that much attention, then they shouldn't be in said high position.

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piece of crap editorial
How the hell can some conservative asshole tell me that I chose to be gay? How much easier would my life be if I was straight???? I've had girls ask me out, so I wouldn't be lonely and depressed all the time 'cause I would have a girlfriend. I wouldn't have to worry about not being able to get married, I wouldn't have to deal with ignorant people telling me that I chose to make difficult. I wouldn't have to worry about being out more publicly for fear that someone might beat the shit out of me 'cause they don't like the fact that I'm gay. I wouldn't have friends who are like I don't have a problem with you being gay, but I still think you're going to Hell. I wouldn't have any problems having children; thousands of retarded heterosexual teens get pregnant every year, wouldn't have to buy eggs and then pay a woman to be a surrogate mother for the eggs. Wouldn't have problems trying to adopt if that's the way I chose to have children.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for me to choose a difficult life. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for 10% of the over 6 billion population on this earth to choose such a lifestyle. The man had the gall to say that because of a psychologist interviewing 200 "converted" homosexuals that it was obvious that gays could change if they wanted to. If it were that fucking easy don't you think more people would?! Don't you think that straight people would thus just as easily to be able to change to being gay?? Hmm, don't see a whole lot of straight people up and deciding that they'll be gay, now do you??

Nathan Tabor deserves to be tar and feathered and rammed up the ass with a flaming-hot rainbow sword for his unintelligence and ignorant babble. How can you sit there and based on a psychologist who interviewed only 200 people put forth your ignorant opinion for people to read?
Intelligent Conservative indeed...his piece of crap editorial shows how much of an unintelligent conservative he is.
Anyone who agrees with that man, talk to me, because I don't understand at all how someone can believe that I would choose this life for myself. I don't, at all.
And anyone like me, who believes the man should have his hands chopped off and his voicebox removed so that he can no longer put forth his unintelligent beliefs out into the world - do talk to me, and we can join in mocking him and praying for the day that the intelligent, fair-minded liberals come back into power to show America hwo a country should be.