Tom Hanks blasts Mormon support for prop. 8 as "unamerican"

[Aramis]

“Homosexualism” is not a word.

It’s not.

it’s a viable construct from a word and a common suffix, and it conveys meaning through these linguistic means.

Close enough to a word for most non-professional purposes.

 

[Sam_Maloney]

I find Tom Hanks’s opinion to be unAmerican in the sense that it’s the American Way of life to have freedom of speech and support freedom of ideas and laws and positions without fear of government reprisal.

I wonder if he objected to anyone calling him unAmerican if he had opposed the war in Iraq.

Of course, the formulation for the last several years has been that ‘Dissent is the purest form of patriotism’.

Now that Obama is in office, it seems that this is no longer the case.

The phoney outrage over Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments makes that clear.

 

[tomarin]

Of course, the formulation for the last several years has been that ‘Dissent is the purest form of patriotism’.

Now that Obama is in office, it seems that this is no longer the case.

The phoney outrage over Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments makes that clear.

I agree completely that it’s a mistake to equate love of country with love of a particular government’s policies. That was true yesterday and it will be true tomorrow. But what does that have to do with Tom Hanks?

 

[Sam_Maloney]

Tomarin, the subject of the thread has shifted a bit: a previous poster suggested Hanks would not have been pleased to be called unamerican over his oppositon to the Iraq war.

Essentially, it seems that Hanks [and many others] believes ‘dissent is patriotic’ only when they do it.

If it’s the Mormons or Rush Limbaugh, its ‘unamerican’.