Originally a comment by Sastra on Donors are disgusted.
VanitysFiend wrote:
The idea that the religious, be they liberal or conservative, deserved to be treated with kid gloves, and people like Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris etc were being highly disrespectful when they called religious beliefs silly, wrong, or worst of all, bad. The idea that the mainstream progressive liberal left would move on from defending conservative Islam to something like Transgenderism isn’t that far fetched to me, what’s bizarre is that the sceptics and atheists followed them on this.
I used to call that the “Little People Argument “ — that being skeptical and honest was a position of power and that the religious were little people, not big … Read the rest