Ah, yes. The "sanctity" of marriage...

Hi friends;

  I had the tv on while checking my email, visiting friend's sites, etc.  This came across the so called "news" as I just read a comment about the previous post.  I will ask you to simply click on the link and then ask yourself.....Sanctity?   http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46903172/ns/today-relationships/t/first-divorce-expo-us-aims-empower-attendees/

hugs.

I would like to see his "evidence".

Former '80’s heartthrob and “Growing Pains” star Kirk Cameron is feeling the heat after he voiced his views on gay marriage during an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan.

"Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part," says Cameron. "So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."
Morgan then asked the born-again Christian if he thought homosexuality was a sin. To that, Cameron replied, "I think that it's unnatural. I think that it's -- it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."
http://mxp.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/07/kirk-cameron-responds-to-backlash-over-anti-gay-comments/?iref=obnetwork


Hi Friends;
  I really liked Kirk in the show he did as a teenager.  Over the years, he has found himself a lifestyle and outlook that seems to work well for him.  For him.  I do support his right to it, even his right to his opinion and freedom of speech.  My question regarding his claims that homosexuality is "unnatural, detrimental and ultimately destructive...." is to ask - says who?
  I will agree to a point.  For someone oriented heterosexual, homosexual activites may be unnatural.  But, to someone who is homosexual, it's the very definition of natural. 
  How is homosexuality detrimental to the foundation of civilization?  The atomic bomb is destructive to the foundation of civilization.  The loving and nurturing relationship shared between two men cannot be seen as anything but positive.  Further, it is a positive and productive union, resulting in all the same general positives as a good heterosexual marriage.  The only difference, the homosexual relationship in of itself does not produce children. 
  So, tell me Kirk, and anyone else...  how again is that destructive?

At first I was going to leave this one be.... nah!

The Hoodie!

As our good friend Geraldo Rivera spelled out so earnestly in his recent cant oddly clearly heard despite having his head so far up his ass, it is the hoodie, that terrible and terrifying garment from hell, that has once again taken a fine young man to his grave and cast the innocent and pure George Zimmerman into legal limbo.  God Damn those Hoodies!!!!!!!

  I, for instance, always quake in the presence of a hoodie sweatshirt.  They frighten me.  How can it not?  Obviously a creation of satan, designed purely for the criminal element.  An artifice of evil.  Men stand in awe, in outright fear from the very concept.  Yet, the garment persists.

  There can be no Peace with hoodies.  There can be no love with hoodies.  They are the devil's spawn, my people.  Don't you see!

Ok, mayhap I've over sold my point.  It's happened before. 

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/national_world&id=8594415

For those of you who don't know, a young man by the name of Treyvon Martin was stalked, eventually killed, by a man who was supposedly the local neighborhood watch captain.  An armed watch captain, which is against the rules, and one who was told by the police dispatcher to stay away from the kid.   This man, George Zimmerman, failed to pass the tests required to be a police officer, most likely those dealing with aggression, delusions of grandeur and self importance, autocracy, etc.  He stalked this young man for "looking like he was into something:" - yeah, he was into a jug of sweet tea and a bag of Skittles. 

Geraldo Rivera, that bastion of broadcasting, that poet laureate of journalism, that epic man of morality and authenticity, declared that George Zimmerman may be at fault.  It could be true.  He's sort of holding his opinion there.  But, the hoodie sweatshirt that the lad was wearing was "just as much at fault".  Huh?  SEE LINK

  George Zimmerman has not been charged with a crime.  Yet.

  Why?  Well, it was the hoodie, of course.  Of course!  Of course.  It couldn't be that the lad was of dark complexion.  So-called Black.  Nope.  It was that damn hoodie sweatshirt.

The Apology

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.


- Paul Boese



One of the oddest conversations I had with my father was over the "apology" to the Afghan people.  Dad said it is repugnant to apologize to the enemy.
 
Oops....
 
Who is my enemy?  To some, anyone of the Muslim faith is an enemy.  Any Arab, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi or Iranian, any Afghan...  is that what we as a people want to understand as 'My Enemy'?   
 
  I've always thought that we as a people, in many ways all western society, seem to excel in those environments where we are sure who our enemy is and can hate them without hesitation.  It's usually best to have someone far away, of course, so that we never really get to know them.  And, it's usually best if they think different than we do, wear different clothes, have different beliefs, and especially if they look different.
  In war it is easy to understand the enemy.  He's the one pointing a rifle at you, right?  Well, for the soldier, that is true.  But, if you widen your scope you begin to see not the soldier, but the troop movement.  Widen further, and you see not just the troop movement, but how that movement can effect your own goals and security.  Widen further and we begin to see perhaps the man behind the movement.  We see the Field Marshal, the King, the President.

  If I am a soldier and I defeat another soldier, well, he is doing his job and I am doing mine.  If I am a General and I defeat the enemy's expansion, well, I've done my job while that other general did his best to do his.  If I am a king or a president, and I defeat the leader of the other country, well, I've done my job and he failed to do his.   All is relatively well in this scenario, outside the nightmares of the soldier or the general, or even the president for the cost of actions taken.

  What happens, though, when a soldier kills not another soldier but a civilian?  What happens when a general takes over a land and subjugates a people, changing their very way of life?  What happens when a president  gives an order that decimates a country?  It is out of ones job.... the actions go beyond the rules of civility.

 It's easy to say 'kill them all' when the trigger is in someone else's hands.  It's easy to play 'couch-potato quarterback'.  After all, I can spout out my little hatreds far from the killing fields, far from the action, far from the consequences.  I can declare my leaders incompetent and weak without recrimination because I live a cushy life.  But, if we are to place a man/woman in leadership, we expect them to lead, to seek out the future, to create a world we would want to live in.
  I don't know if admitting when one is wrong is able to be considered "aiding and comforting the enemy".  I don't know if making war upon a people or a religion is what some think we are doing.  I do know that if we are so wild as to be incapable of defining our objectives, declaring our enemies, and deciding our course of achieving our goals, we best stay home and bitch from the couch.

Please see this site...

Hi Friends;
  I've not pushed SadCat's site for a little bit now, so I think it's time.  Please click on the pick of Billy Lucas' shoes in my side bar, or HERE, and it will link you to the site "The Price of Hate".  I've included SadCat's header bar here.  The highlighted section at the bottom really caught my attention today, had me reread some things. 

Also, please see this vid.  I can't capture it for repost here, but I have a link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsfkKzAbfhA
What struck me were the comments under the video.  People remembering being bullied, and kids being bullied - as the song say, 'for being who they are'.
The Price of Hate

The purpose of this blog is to list the children who commit suicide or are killed because of their sexual orientation, or their perceived sexual orientation. The various professional religious hate organizations out there are fond of telling everyone how they are being victimized because their religious beliefs apparently force them to hate LGBT people. But what about the rights of these children who really pay the price for their attempts to institutionalize their bigotry and hate?

That's what this admittedly depressing site is going to try to do. Remind these people that hatred does have a price. You don't get to go around proclaiming "Protect the Children!", while contributing to their deaths.

I'm talking to you FRC*, AFA*, NOM, CWA*, ADF, FOtF and so many others.
* These groups are listed as hate groups by the SPLC.