Operation Chip

[eddymanchfan04]

I'm taking pride in knowing that I'm am smarter than most people in this country. It's an attitude I was not comfortable with before, but it's the only way I can get through the pain of the impending doom. I must have a chip on my shoulder. Rather than being fearful of impending school budget cuts, or the real possibility of getting drafted, I'm

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[spleenbad]

Edward, I feel your pain. They had someone from Columbus, Ohio on NPR today make a comment to the effect of (meaning, I can't quote exactly): "If you're going to go and choose to be a homosexual, just don't rub it in all of our faces."

It's hard to believe anyone still believes that being gay means that it is a choice. That the most conservative Christians can't understand that there can be LOVE, real LOVE, between two people of the same sex. I have a feeling that most Christians haven't felt that feeling in their chest, stomach, whatever, that we all know happens when we really love someone.

It blows my mind that this bullshit about "moral issues" is taking the spotlight.

[eddymanchfan04]

See, I'm religious. I think it means something different to be religious in the Northeast than it does elsewhere.

Paul Krugman wrote this in the NY Times today:

The religious right - not to be confused with religious Americans in general - isn't a majority, or even a dominant minority. It's just one bloc of voters, whom the Republican Party has learned to mobilize with wedge issues like this year's polarizing debate over gay marriage.

Rather than catering to voters who will never support them, the Democrats - who are doing pretty well at getting the votes of moderates and independents - need to become equally effective at mobilizing their own base.

What do you think Eleanor?

[eddymanchfan04]

Eleanor Clift wrote this in newsweek

Many are upset that moral values are defined so narrowly around reproductive rights and sexual identity when the Bible pays far more attention to issues of poverty.

That makes me very upset