I like the idea - how about it? Pledge a penny for every bit of hate you hear. It needs to be thought out a bit more of course, but, regardless, this is how Americans are fighting hate in their country. No stasi tactics of ratting on your neighbours, no HRC’s taking down newspapers and authors, just plain old citizens exercising their rights and taking on hate-mongers face to face. Via Bug Girl’s Blog:

The student hate group invited Ryan Sorba, author of a (unpublished) book called “The Born Gay Hoax”, to Michigan State University. (The talk was advertised with flyers proclaiming “Gays Spread AIDS“, by the way.)

Sorba repeatedly makes a connection between homosexuality and child molestation, and uses some very distorted readings of some very specious papers to try to prove that homosexuality is an unnatural choice. He’d also like to recriminalize sodomy…

[In response to his talk there was] a “Seven Nights for Equal Rights” series of programs that focused on bringing positive speakers, and a showing of the film “For the Bible Tells me So.” And a fundraiser where people pledged a penny for each Word of Hate uttered by Sorba to the Michigan Equality Campaign.

What a difference a border makes.