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you know that. When you're appeasing slave owners i t’ s wrong. That's worth fighting for isn't it? Getting rid of slavery."
     
                  "I know I should say yes. But to be honest I doubt I would fight myself, ever. So it would just be talk."
     
                  "Sometimes you have to fight. Sometimes you have to die."
     
                  "So Buchanan wasn't brave enough?"
     
                  "Are you asking if I hate Buchanan because he was a queer with no backbone?"
     
                  "I suppose I'm asking that, yes."
     
                  "I couldn't care less if he was gay." Dom said. "But it wasn't that he just wanted to avoid war. Gay or straight, there are plenty of cowardly people out there, who have tried desperately to avoid war. No matter what the war was over, or who it was with. I suppose no matter how much I disagree with him, I can't hate him for that. I can't hate him for being afraid. The problem wasn't that he let the South keep slaves. He supported slave ownership."
     
                  "Didn't a lot of people back then? Isn't that why there was a war?" That remark had perhaps been insensitive. I said it without thinking.
     
                  He let me away with it: "Tha t’ s just moral relativism crap. They knew no different. It was just how they were raised. Blah, blah. Yadda, yadda. As though there weren't people in the world opposing slavery and people in their own country opposing slavery. And even if everyone was doing it, does that make it ok?"
     
                  "So do you hate them all? Washington to Buchanan? Washington was a slave owner."
     
                  "Washington was a slave owner who didn't want to pay his taxes," Dom snorted that. "Listen, what do you think when people say you shouldn't be allowed marry? When they say you're a degenerate, you're abnormal?"
     
                  "Obviously it pisses me off."
     
                  "Do you give credence to their opinion? Do you think they're allowed to think like that? Do you think their opinion is valid because their culture has taught them this, so i t’ s not their fault?"
     
                  "Some people back home have never even met a gay guy. That they know of. All they know is what the priests or Bible tells them." This was probably true, but still felt like a lie.
     
                  "Those people back home don't know shit." Dom said. "We have those guys here too. And we know they don't know shit. And you know it too. There is a difference between right and wrong and i t’ s the same no matter where you live or who you are. You can't just hide behind your ignorance. You can't just make the existence of a culture of ignorance the very reason why your ignorance should be listened to and accepted."
     
                  "Where does that leave me?"
     
                  "Just accept they're wrong. And you're right. Don't let them talk, if they do, ignore them. Noone has a right to spew ignorant bullshit, just because they're from a culture of ignorant bullshit. They're bigots and should be treated like bigots."
     
                  "How does all of this square with your campaign on the Muslim vote?" I asked. "Surely you should have supported it. Who cares if Muslims have a different culture? You can't just condemn people to death over what they write."
     
                  "Tha t’ s different. Not all Muslims supported the fatwa. Most didn't. I'd have no problem asking a Muslim in a job interview if they have or would ever try to kill Salman Rushdie. If a Catholic comes to an interview, you don't automatically assume they are a homophobe, even if they are practicing. But you can ask for their opinions on gays and not give them a job based on that."
     
                  "Don't you think people should take