A couple of my friends are overall political conservatives and pagan; there are a couple of generally leftish political positions that are at the same sort of creedal status in pagan communities, producing the same sorts of ngrrrrraaaagh feelings in some folks.
(Recently on the discussion forum for the temple I'm vaguely associated with, someone took the presumed agreement of his audience to mean that he had free rein to be an ass on a political subject. Irritated me, not only because I can't consider an ally someone who is that willing to behave badly, but because the forum was, to my mind, obviously inappropriate.)
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:56 am (UTC)(Recently on the discussion forum for the temple I'm vaguely associated with, someone took the presumed agreement of his audience to mean that he had free rein to be an ass on a political subject. Irritated me, not only because I can't consider an ally someone who is that willing to behave badly, but because the forum was, to my mind, obviously inappropriate.)