Respecting Other's Opinions
I thank God for my mother, she raised me with a great set of values. One of those values is to respect the opinions of others. While I believe I have a good job of that, at this point I must blatanly digress.
I think that to have same-sex marriage as your #1 voting issue, above the war, health care, the economy, etc. etc. is STUPID, DUMB, and IDIOTIC. For the record, I'm not in favor of same-sex marriage. I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But to vote for Bush because you believe it is more important to keep gay people from getting married than to address an international conflict which may have unimaginable repercussions is ASININE. I cannot understand the mentality of people who voted to re-elect this president because of "moral values." How is neglecting the health care crisis in this country "moral"? How is turning a blind eye to the deaths of thousands upon thousands in Iraq based on faulty information "moral"? How is allowing the gap between the rich and poor expand tremendously "moral"? After these past elections I have lost my faith in the American people. I thought that after centuries of genocide, psychological warfare, and weapons of mass deception, that maybe, just maybe this country could be put on the right track. Apparently 59 million people think otherwise. I think it is no coincidence that the population centers of the country vote Democratic, or at least left-of-center; when you have so many different kinds of people living together there is a general feeling that each indentity group must be vigilant for the freedoms of others lest they lose their own freedoms. Hence, with the case of same-sex marriage, I would venture to guess that many people in the blue states don't necessarily support it, but aren't going to fight to take away that "right" lest other rights be taken away from them.
Are people really that dumb? Are people really that dumb to believe this guy? Of course, there are some very intelligent people who like Bush because they agree with his and his administration's world view. I am not one of these people, and deep down there is this hope that if all 59 million people had more information other than about same-sex marriage, they would not be one of these people either. There was no connection between Iraq and 9/11. Bush himself said there was no evidence of such a connection. There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin-Laden, although the vice president continued to make that assertion throughout the campaign.
Ugh. I don't know what else to do.
WATCH C-SPAN!!!
I think that to have same-sex marriage as your #1 voting issue, above the war, health care, the economy, etc. etc. is STUPID, DUMB, and IDIOTIC. For the record, I'm not in favor of same-sex marriage. I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But to vote for Bush because you believe it is more important to keep gay people from getting married than to address an international conflict which may have unimaginable repercussions is ASININE. I cannot understand the mentality of people who voted to re-elect this president because of "moral values." How is neglecting the health care crisis in this country "moral"? How is turning a blind eye to the deaths of thousands upon thousands in Iraq based on faulty information "moral"? How is allowing the gap between the rich and poor expand tremendously "moral"? After these past elections I have lost my faith in the American people. I thought that after centuries of genocide, psychological warfare, and weapons of mass deception, that maybe, just maybe this country could be put on the right track. Apparently 59 million people think otherwise. I think it is no coincidence that the population centers of the country vote Democratic, or at least left-of-center; when you have so many different kinds of people living together there is a general feeling that each indentity group must be vigilant for the freedoms of others lest they lose their own freedoms. Hence, with the case of same-sex marriage, I would venture to guess that many people in the blue states don't necessarily support it, but aren't going to fight to take away that "right" lest other rights be taken away from them.
Are people really that dumb? Are people really that dumb to believe this guy? Of course, there are some very intelligent people who like Bush because they agree with his and his administration's world view. I am not one of these people, and deep down there is this hope that if all 59 million people had more information other than about same-sex marriage, they would not be one of these people either. There was no connection between Iraq and 9/11. Bush himself said there was no evidence of such a connection. There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin-Laden, although the vice president continued to make that assertion throughout the campaign.
Ugh. I don't know what else to do.
WATCH C-SPAN!!!
posted by Talib at 10:31 AM
1 Comments:
"Morality". The last election brought hords of people to the polls voting on 'moral' issues. So many of these were professing white evangelical Christians. As one who fits into that group, let me just speak to my brothers and sisters: This American value of individualism that has invaded our faiths is not Biblical! God has called us to look outward; to consider others better than ourselves. Jesus came for the least of these. He spent much more time talking about justice to the poor than he ever did talking about homosexuality, abortion, etc. I am tired of Christians so absorbed in American myths of meritocracy and individualism that they have lost compassion. I am tired of people who say that I am too pasionate. How can compasion not be passionate? The word translated in the Bible as compasion literally means 'a tearing of the gut'. Do your very insides tear and weap for the injustice that is wraught in this world? Stop numbing yourselves to the reality! Stop reading portions of His word and ignoring others! This is the call to a walk with a living God. Only then will we see and experience His power to transform this world. Only then will we know His truth and His hope.
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