Editorial: Can people who disagree with you still be decent?

You either agree with me or you are literally Hitler. That seems to be the extremist views going around these days in politics, both left and right. Everything said and done by the other side, is promoted to be evil. What made me think of this was that last week former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden spoke kindly of now Republican Vice President Mike Pence, calling him “a decent guy.”

Celebrities and the LGBTQ community went insane.

Biden might just as well have called Adolf Hitler “a decent guy.”

VP Pence is well-known as a Christian evangelical, whose wife works at a Catholic school, and although not activists they also do not condone any sexuality other than heterosexuality as indicated in their Bible.

Perhaps most religious people are less rigid about the teachings in the scriptures, but polls still show some 70 per cent of people in America identify as Christian. An additional one per cent identify as Muslim, which also doesn’t have the most tolerant views historically when it comes to LGBTQ acceptance.

But the question arises that just because people disagree with you, does it make them bad people? Some 95 per cent of people in the world are not LGBTQ, and although not vocally opposed they obviously disagree with that private proclivity. . . . contd.