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The battle over words

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English: Photographs of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Intellectual and moral battles occur using words.  Therefore, it is necessary to define the terms and also realize that words have denotation and connotation.  Denotation is the literal meaning of a word and connotation is the hidden, emotional meaning.  For example, the denotation of the word "mother" means a female who has borne offspring.  The connotation of "mother" is a warm, caring parent who always loves you.  Connotations can be positive and negative.  The word "mother" has a positive feeling to it.  The word "bigot" has a negative feel (connation).  When liberals use vocabulary, they tend to use connotations that are favorable for them and negative for their opponents.  For example, you will hear about " homosexual rights " because the word "rights" has a positive connotation.  We support people's rights, don't we...

‘Bigotry’ and the abuse of language

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August 24, 2012 ( HLIAmerica.org ) - I grew up in an Italian neighborhood, so my first understanding of bigotry was that it referred to a very large tree (“Hey, dat’s a big-a tree!”). Now, many years later, I know that it really means supporting traditional marriage. Like President Obama, I have “evolved.” I have advanced on the semantic spectrum from being ethnicized to being politicized. Who needs Noah Webster? William A. Jacobson is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Cornell University Law School . The sesquipedalian title of the statement he posted on July 29, 2012 encapsulates its essence: “Most important legacy of Obama’s gay marriage switch was freeing Dems to play the ‘bigot card’.” Now, according to Jacobson, Democrats are free to accuse anyone and everyone who supports the traditional understanding of marriage as bigoted. Those who thus stand accused would be nearly everyone in history together with the vast majority of the living. Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther ...

Homosexual protesters call cardinal ‘arch bigot’ for opposing same-sex ‘marriage’

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS , February 13, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As parishioners gathered for Sunday Mass , a radical group of homosexual activists protested outside Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral, calling Francis Cardinal George the city’s  “arch-bigot”  for defending marriage. Carrying placards and spouting slogans on the sidewalk as worshipers entered the sanctuary, members of the Gay Liberation Network instructed Catholics to  “give up hate for Lent.” Cardinal Francis George David E. Smith, executive director of the  Illinois Family Institute  told LifeSiteNews.com the Gay Liberation Network is “a tiny group of radical activists who are trying to intimidate and name-call religious leaders like Cardinal George to try to coerce them into silence for standing up for God’s institution of marriage.” The protests have been an annual event since at least 2005, he said. Last year, the group swarmed the cathedral as police did nothing . In 2005, the Gay Liberation Netwo...