March 12th, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Refusal to Reason
Joe. My. God.: Friendly Voices - J.K. Rowling
Rowling: “Fundamentalism is, ‘I will not open my mind to look on your side of the argument at all. I won’t read it, I won’t look at it, I’m too frightened.’ That’s what’s dangerous about it, whether it be politically extreme, religiously extreme. In fact, fundamentalists across all the major religions, if you put them in a room, they’d have bags in common! They hate all the same things, it’s such an ironic thing.”
I like how she dealt with it him being gay. It wasn’t an issue so it never came up. Someone asked, so she answered. Being gay doesn’t make someone a different person, it just means they have love for someone of the same sex instead of someone of the opposite sex.
