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[02 Feb 2005|03:10pm] |
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The Religious Right is anti-tolerance.
I quote the part I found most notable:
"Well, see, we're really only dealing here with a specific kind of Christian, and this specific kind of Christian takes a very different view of who Jesus was and what he was put on earth for. This specific kind of Christian is also convinced that any attempt to encourage tolerance of - or even to represent - homosexuality is simply a veiled attempt to recruit. Why? Because all of us tend to assume that everyone else, under the skin, is really just like us. Therefore, people who themselves are aggressive, tireless, fanatically driven recruiters - as many evangelical Christians are - assume that everyone else is recruiting too.
Dobson, himself, would never stop at simply encouraging tolerance of fundamentalist Christianity. The whole point of being an evangelical is that your goal is always, and everywhere, to convert as many people as you can reach."
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| From the anti-gay-marriage folks... |
[28 Jan 2005|09:33am] |
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Found this while looking at the journal of a friend of a friend, and wanted to post it for your input.
The article.
I quote a portion of the article here:
"Why then do homosexual activists want their options restricted by marriage laws, when they can make their own contracts with their own provisions and hold all sorts of ceremonies to celebrate it? The issue is not individual rights. What the activists seek is official social approval of their lifestyle.
But this is the antithesis of equal rights. If you have a right to someone else's approval, they don't have a right to their own opinions and values. You cannot say what "consenting adults" do in private is nobody else's business and then turn around and say others must approve of it."
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| NY MTA makes my brain hurt. |
[07 Jan 2005|10:58am] |
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I don't know whether to laugh (because they are being so stunningly idiotic and deserve to be bitch-slapped and laughed out of the streets) or cry (because they haven't been).
My first reaction was "What the bloody effing hell?", which is still appropriate, I suppose. My brain hurts in part because it's such BLATANT discrimination, in part because of their COMPLETE ignorance, and partly for reasons inexpressible. I will point out, one more time, that they badly need to be laughed at; it is incomprehensible to me that this should be reacted to with any support, be taken seriously in any way, whatsoever.
Now that I've gotten my feelings on the topic out, here's the article.
And here it is for when the link goes bad. ( Read more... )
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| Hobbitses! |
[27 Oct 2004|04:52pm] |
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No, really!
New species of human (now extinct, sadly) discovered! ( Read more... )
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| Registered to Vote? |
[13 Oct 2004|08:48am] |
Apparently, Voters Outreach of America, aka America Votes (a private company largely funded by the Republican National Committee) was tearing up and trashing Democratic (and only Democratic) registrations in Las Vegas and may now be operating in Oregon. Beware!
Also, the stealing of yard signs (as has happened to some Kerry/Edwards supporters that I know of) is reprehensible. My spouse said, "Stealing those signs is like stealing free speech!" I encourage people to spread that quote. If it gets through to even one potential sign thief, it'd be a wonderful thing.
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| Outraged by Inequity |
[20 Sep 2004|09:43am] |
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Wife Returned to 'Deserter' Army Husband
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Excuse me? No. This woman has the fundamental human right to determine the course of her own life. (And, yes, that is a fundamental human right. Period.) She must be educated in the options available to her to do that. Period.
This is a reason Islam/Christianity/Judaism make me very uncomfortable. Despite varying interpretations, all of these religions teach that women are somehow different than men, usually in negative ways. This is wrong. Period.
And for those who argue that women are the "weaker" sex, I give you this article.
Guatemalan girl survives 16 days alone in jungle
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So, yeah. NOT "weaker". By any means.
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| "Family fare"? I think not. |
[15 Sep 2004|11:35am] |
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Right. So I listen to YesterdayUSA, because it's free old time radio broadcasts. They advertise themselves heavily as "family" entertainment and there are frequent references to God and so forth...Not my usual crowd, but I can avoid or ignore it for the most part and they do air a lot of shows I really enjoy. So.
The hypocrisy got to me today. I wouldn't consider the traditional gospel song Jezebel "family friendly", but they apparently do. (And I'm sure there are plenty of other songs just as bad or worse in the gospel category.)
Jezebel Lyrics ( Read more... )
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't believe in outside censorship, and they can run their station however they choose. But next time some extremist Christian starts talking about how awful the stuff they sing about in modern music is and "Oh, the CHILDREN", I'm going to have something to say to them, is all.
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| Question and News |
[07 Sep 2004|08:39am] |
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Would it confuse people if I designated this LJ a community? It would still be just for me, but, as a community, I could access it from my main account rather than having to logout/login to post.
RAND Study Finds Adolescents Who Watch a Lot of TV With Sexual Content Have Sex Sooner
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I don't have a problem with teens having sex as long as they've been educated and are emotionally well-adjusted about it. However, if this is true of sex, it's possible that it's true of violence as well, which I'm more concerned about. As always, it comes down to the fact that children need good, detailed guidance from their primary caregivers.
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| My Dream President |
[24 Aug 2004|08:37am] |
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People talk about candidates "waffling", about candidates who tell the people what they want to hear. Well, I have an opinion about that.
I want a candidate that will tell me how he/she is going to represent the people. I don't give a flying fig what one's personal opinions/stances are. It is not the job of the President to advance his/her views...it is the job of the President to represent the interests of ALL the people of the country, to follow the will of the majority while protecting the minorities from abuse/harm/suffering. Where the people are narrowly divided, it is the job of the president to ensure that neither side gets undue advantage in the law until a consensus is reached by the people, and to do everything he/she can, as a leader, to find ways to reconcile opposing views and unite the people in their great diversity.
It takes a very special person to be a true public servant, and there are, sadly, far too few of them in positions of power.
That's the candidate I'd really want to vote for. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever see that candidate.
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| An Apt Comic and Yahoo's Word of the Day sucks. |
[12 Aug 2004|09:40am] |
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Today's Rose is Rose does rather speak to some of my non-childed urges. *chuckle*
Yahoo's Word of the Day sucks.
It used to be from Kaplans.com, and it was bad, and now it's from Petersons.com and it is worse. I give you today's entry:
predilection
DEFINITION: (noun) a liking or preference
EXAMPLE: To relax from his presidential duties, Kennedy had a predilection for spy novels featuring James Bond.
SYNONYMS: inclination, proclivity, propensity
*pause while I shriek at that HORRIBLE sentence*
From Dictionary.com, a couple of MUCH more accurate definitions: ( Read more... )
I'm to the point that I'm going to get rid of the Yahoo word of the day part of my page, 'cause it just keeps annoying me!
I stick out my tongue at you, Yahoo Word Of The Day! :P
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| THIS! *enraged sputtering* THIS is why! |
[12 Aug 2004|09:16am] |
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THIS is why we (those "oh-so-annoying" liberals) get bothered when Certain People start MUCKING AROUND WITH OUR CIVIL RIGHTS.
You, no matter WHO THE $%#$ YOU ARE, do NOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOT! have the right to FORCE your opinions/beliefs (which are NOT facts no matter how much you want them to be) on ONE SINGLE OTHER PERSON, and you need to be reminded of that in BIG GIANT EXTREMELY CLEAR LETTERS or you WILL do it.
May that individual come to understand what he did and why it was wrong and to feel the appropriate level of horror and shame at his blatant disregard for the principles of liberty and equality upon which (IN MY OPINION) the future of humanity depends.
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| US Inconsistency (Bad) and The End of The Rainbow (GOOD!) |
[06 Aug 2004|08:24am] |
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Once again, I am annoyed by the US. Specifically, I would now like to shove this in the face of everyone who says that the US is doing X (war in Iraq, whatever) because we are "engaging in our duty as a superpower to help the rest of the world." 'Cause these people need HELP, and we AREN'T there and other countries ARE (including France.) The US serves its own interests in the vast majority of cases, and I wish it would stop lying to itself and the rest of the world about this. ( Article text for when the link goes bad. )
In MUCH nicer news, I've found the end of the rainbow!
That's not "glory", that's the Pot o' Gold, people!
(Mark down another one for "primitive awareness of things passing into legend", I say! :)
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