Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 10:23 AM EST [General]
I read an editorial today that gives me hope for at least some people... the article was on a presidential candidate and whether his religion should come into play. The answer was a yes and a no. Sounds confusing, but I guess that's the nature of politics!
Given my rant of yesterday, where I am almost ready to vote for anyone who isn't being voted for by the Evangalists, I found this editorial good and thought provoking. The editor was talking about a candidate who is Mormon. He said that the check list of whether it should effect his running was simple..."So, the question is can we trust a Mormon to be ethical, patriotic, well-adjusted, aware of his social, moral, political and spiritual culture and bearings? That's eight considerations on a list that could extend for many, many more. And the answer is "yes" eight times and continuing to the end of the list."
I think this is not the first time in this race we will be faced with these questions...there is a woman and a black and possibly a Jewish person also in the race. Does or should these factors make a difference? I would have said "no", but ya know what? We have a fundie in the White House right now and it is making a difference! I personally don't care whether the president is yellow black or white, male, female or gay. I can wish for a pagan, but it ain't happening!
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think the media is going to give these differences a lot of publicity. I do have one question??? How do you pick the right one?
Okay- everyone has something that just bugs the hell out them, this is my new bug!
So, I've been hearing about this movie; Jesus Camp. I've been sent clips of it and so on, but didn't really want to watch the movie...the clips were bad enough! So, right now, I'm in a hotel in Virginia on buiness with hubby. Last night, he wanted to watch a movie. Heselected Jesus Camp.
He'd heard me talking about it, but thought it was BS. Of course he thought the same thing about the last scary movie we saw; An Inconvenient Truth. So we watched this movie.
OMG&G!!! I have a new purpose in life! I will fight to my last breath to fight these radical Evangelical nutballs! I have never seen anything scarier than the minister looking us in the face and saying "Evangelicals make up 25% of the voting population, all we have to do is vote and we can make this government ours". I am appalled at this thought...I ran into a pagan the other day who honestly thinks that there is nothing to interest pagans in politics!
For our children's sake, everyone GET OUT AND VOTE!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 07:11 AM EST [General]
I've been enjoying ready peoples blogs and ideas. This does seem like a very nice place. It's populated with good people who are like minded (basically) and that's a rare find.
