I would add, that you shouldn’t even try unless you have some morals.
I live among these losers and too many of them are serial bigamists. If they can’t even stay married, they are not the people I would choose to instruct me on family life. The same goes for a bunch of old men who are not supposed to be involved. There can’t be much worse than having the rules of “the game” drawn up by failures and spectators.
]]>Shifting a the blame to a group with less power than you have is always safer than going after the more powerful, who may, in fact, have played a part in your problems.
Part of the reaction is fear of any group that has the courage to actually oppose those in power. This plays a role in the reaction to labor unions, civil rights groups, environmental groups, and other activists who are willing to speak truth to power.
The Nine-Twelvers don’t really think that there is a threat from the Obama administration, or they wouldn’t be in street. Look at the apology to Obama and compare it to the apologies by Republicans to Rush Limbaugh. It isn’t hard to see who really scares them.
]]>It doesn’t have to be logical, Jack, it just has to sound reasonable. Too many of these people have lost the ability to question authority, as long as that “authority” appeals to their prejudice.
There is no logical basis to call Obama a socialist, and plenty of hard evidence that he is a conservative, but “everybody knows that black people are socialists”, Obama’s black, so he is a socialist. It’s absurd, but there are a lot of people who believe it.
The evangelicals have a large problem: their numbers have been flat for a decade, and are starting to decline. They need people, and recruiting isn’t going well. If they don’t score some victories soon, they will fade into the archives, like all of the other “awakenings” that have occurred in American history.
They waited too long to do this. This should have been when they were riding high in the Bush years, which will probably be recorded as the high point of their influence. This amendment will require a 60% vote to pass, and they only have until February to get the almost 700,000 required signatures.
The real joy in Florida is that you only have 75 words for an amendment and they usually want to hide the meaning of what they are doing.
The crazies will always be with us, and there is a hard-core strand of Calvinism down here that can get really annoying.
Yes, it is sort of weird the way the Catholics and Calvinists are converging on some issues, given their history.
]]>I have to confess that we must finally acknowledge that we are living in a truly strange world when the roots of the Southern Baptist denomination are even more extremely strange when it comes to issues of birth control than the views of the Roman Catholic church…especially given their long-standing “relationship”….
]]>I personally recent people trying to turn this country into the some form of dictatorship.
]]>I don’t want anyone interfering between patients and doctors, any more than between pastors and parishioners, [well, unless they are serving and arrest warrant]. It is no one else’s business. Those communications are privileged, even in criminal courts and grand juries, so people should not be injecting themselves.
Should we be outlawing blood transfusions because some believe they are sinful? Should we mandate circumcision because others think it’s required? Where does the religious interference end?
This is an amendment targeted specifically at women, and it is discriminatory.
]]>Santa Barbara fortunately is quite progressive and basically almost all of the community actively and publicly supports our local Planned Parenthood clinic. Although we do have the usual nutjobs that come to picket and send death threats to the doctors.
One of the local events that our community looks forward to each year is the Planned Parenthood booksale held at Earl Warren Showgrounds (thousands of books, cd’s, etc. require BIG space.) I shop there early…and often. I know I am supporting women’s health and a clinic that my OBY practiced at.
.-= last blog ..If Stanford Hospital can do it…. =-.
i looked them up and found that it’s not just florida that they’re targeting, which is both less depressing now i that know florida didn’t start this on their own, and more depressing now that i know how widespread it is.
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