I know this is a sensitive subject but one I feel I need to express an opinion about. We recently visited our friends in CA - a female couple that adopted a little boy who is now nearly 3. It struck me as I sat there watching this bright little boy interact with his loving parents how absurd our society has become in its judgments. Those that know me know that I’m not bound by religious constraints in how I decide to live my life and how I view others. I don’t want to make this about religion but typically those that have the strongest stance against homosexuality are religious and base it on the religious views they have. I am of course not saying that all religious people have this view or judge people in this way - quite the opposite in a lot of cases, but religion is used as an excuse to condemn at times. People quote the Bible when it is convenient for their cause but ignore the Bible when it is not convenient for them.
I am not here to debate whether homosexuality is right or wrong (although Adolf Hitler thought homosexuality was wrong as well - any belief system that you have that has something in common with Hitler, I would suggest examining). I’m here to proclaim that we need to leave it alone. We need to stop jumping up and down and judging others from our own insecurities. The debate over gay marriage and gay adoption is ridiculous.
So I have had this political blog or whatever you want to call it, I have it pretty much on automated but then again every now and then I like to grace my readers with my own spiels. I am a democrat, some call me a liberal, others just call me a retard. I think that there are alot of issues that need to be faced but then when I think of them. I keep coming back to the races and who is vying for what. Everybody is worried about what everyone else is thinking and how they are going to go about this. We as America are about what other people think. Well, if I vote for this what will joe blow down the street think of me next time we have a conversation involving politics. Vote for what you believe in. I mean step aside from any of the personality traits that these candidates have and focus on what you might consider an important issue to be fighting about.
Look at the issues, fight for what you believe in.
Republican John McCain is trying to find separation from the failed policies of the Republican Party as personified by George W. Bush as he heads into the general election. The failed policies of the GOP go well beyond Bush however to all those Governors, state legislators and Members of the House and Senate in Washington who also aspire to class warfare, deregulation, smaller government and privatization of public services for private profit.
Shhhh! DON’T Say it Out Loud …
Posted by NanceGreggs in General Discussion: Primaries
Sat Apr 12th 2008, 10:00 PM
How many times have we all said, especially over the last seven-plus years: “If you’re not pissed-off, you’re not paying attention.”
So one can only wonder at the Clinton camp’s response when Barack Obama spoke to the fact that those who have been paying attention are pissed-off – and rightfully so.
Senator Clinton’s immediate reaction was not only to feign outrage that Obama had actually acknowledged the presence of the elephant in the room, but to go the further step of pretending that the elephant doesn’t even exist.
“That hasn’t been my experience,” she said of her travels through Pennsylvania. Hillary only sees happy, optimistic people who are willing to roll-up-their-sleeves – as though they have been lazily lounging in front of the afternoon soaps while their jobs disappeared – the inference being that people whose lives have been decimated by outsourcing, unfair trade deals, and government policies that leave working-class citizens in the dust while catering to the already-wealthy and the bottom-lines of corporations are too stupid to do anything but smile mindlessly in the midst of their plight.
Anger, Bitterness and Small-Town America
Posted by Renaissance Man in General Discussion: Primaries
Fri Apr 11th 2008, 11:14 PM
So, today I decide to log on to DU because I wanted to catch up on the latest manufactured outrage, and behold, there’s something new. The only problem is that the “new” isn’t really new, and it should be common knowledge for anyone who halfway pays attention to economic patterns and trends and what has happened over the course of the last 25 years.
I was raised in small-town America in the South in a community with a tax-base primarily supported by people working in marine and fisheries, oil refineries, textiles. You name it, the blue collar worker was there to work the job. Small businesses (the local pharmacy, convenience store, a few small banks and small mom-and-pop clothing retailers were there) and you felt some sense of security and you held a belief that the American Dream was possible, even in what is often a small part of America often forgotten. You know small town America — little league baseball games, Friday night football games, cotton candy and the county fairs, etc. Everything America was intended to be in a little encapsulated space.
I know this is a sensitive subject but one I feel I need to express an opinion about. We recently visited our friends in CA - a female couple that adopted a little boy who is now nearly 3. It struck me as I sat there watching this bright little boy interact with his loving parents how absurd our society has become in its judgments. Those that know me know that I’m not bound by religious constraints in how I decide to live my life and how I view others. I don’t want to make this about religion but typically those that have the strongest stance against homosexuality are religious and base it on the religious views they have. I am of course not saying that all religious people have this view or judge people in this way - quite the opposite in a lot of cases, but religion is used as an excuse to condemn at times. People quote the Bible when it is convenient for their cause but ignore the Bible when it is not convenient for them.
