Don't blame all Christians for the ignorance of the masses...and be a little more pissed at other liberals who didn't bother to vote. There was a 17% voter turnout - and I guarantee that this state is not 83% conservative. I'm not even 83% conservative myself... Hell, I'd be willing to bet that the gay population is somewhere close to 17%, so obviously not everyone who is directly affected even bothered to vote.
It doesn't make sense to be mad at people who weren't going to vote down the amendment anyway - be mad at the ones who could've done it and didn't.
My problem is by no means with Christians as a whole. My problem is with the churches who preach hatred and discrimination. The churches that take the time and effort to condemn homosexuality because some backwards book says that homosexuals are bad (and, oh, by the way, if you have pre-marital sex that it's a capital crime), but yet spend so little energy combating poverty and injustice.
Unfortunately, the majority of people who turned out to "vote down" prop. 2 were "Christians" and were told to do so by people of their faith who they look up to.
And yes, I hate that people are too damned lazy to vote and have no doubt in my mind that there were quite a few homosexuals who sat at home doing nothing when they should have done something. I blame them as much as I blame those who actively preach hatred and prejudice...
Oh, and that sucks about the truck. Who's doing the investigating? Make sure they take a look at the impact and at his motorcycle - they should be able to get an estimate of his speed from that. If it's his insurance company doing the investigation, make sure your company does, too.
We have the same insurance company, so it looks like they're going to duke it out internally.
I'm hoping this isn't going to be an issue at all once they look at the vehicles...his bike is screwed up enough that it should be fairly obvious that he was going way too fast, even if I can't prove that I wasn't lane-changing (how in the heck do you prove that you didn't cut someone off and were staying in your own lane, going the speed limit, anyway? And if he hit my back bumper, isn't it his fault, even if I was changing lanes?).
Argh. This is the cause for much of my frustration... I don't like waiting this kind of stuff out.
yet another situation where I wish I had a video/sound recorder going 24/7 (that, of course, would be admissable in court or legal proceedings). I still don't understand how someone can make a statement admitting fault and then change his mind.
Oh yeah, and as far as the voting thing, I do agree with the above comment in that it is sad that obviously many affected people did not get out to vote. More importantly, as I believe Hill's point is - it doesn't matter. Even if the entire texas gay population came out to vote, it would not have been enough. (17% gay is quite high and can't possibly be a Texas statistic, though I'd be curious to see a source)
No source, just speculation. But I'm willing to bet that half of 17% is homosexual, or close enough to it that if all the homosexuals and their sympathizers had gone out and voted that they would have voted it down...and had to go vote it down every couple years...until it passed...
Dirty freakin' politics...
What really pisses me off is that this was a religious right attack on non-aggressors. That's just lame. I have the utmost respect for Christ, even though faith is beyond me at present. The church is just getting out of hand.
Next thing you know G-dub's going to be appointing the next Grand Inquisitor...
As far as I know, it's just "silence"...but as little Japanese as I know, they might very well be literally "silent thought".
The word is "chinmoku"... And since I do know that "mokusatsu" can mean both "silence/no comment" and "to kill with silence"...(possibly the biggest translation error of all time [see WWII]) I'm going to assume that you're probably right.
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It doesn't make sense to be mad at people who weren't going to vote down the amendment anyway - be mad at the ones who could've done it and didn't.
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My problem is with the churches who preach hatred and discrimination. The churches that take the time and effort to condemn homosexuality because some backwards book says that homosexuals are bad (and, oh, by the way, if you have pre-marital sex that it's a capital crime), but yet spend so little energy combating poverty and injustice.
Unfortunately, the majority of people who turned out to "vote down" prop. 2 were "Christians" and were told to do so by people of their faith who they look up to.
And yes, I hate that people are too damned lazy to vote and have no doubt in my mind that there were quite a few homosexuals who sat at home doing nothing when they should have done something. I blame them as much as I blame those who actively preach hatred and prejudice...
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I'm hoping this isn't going to be an issue at all once they look at the vehicles...his bike is screwed up enough that it should be fairly obvious that he was going way too fast, even if I can't prove that I wasn't lane-changing (how in the heck do you prove that you didn't cut someone off and were staying in your own lane, going the speed limit, anyway? And if he hit my back bumper, isn't it his fault, even if I was changing lanes?).
Argh. This is the cause for much of my frustration... I don't like waiting this kind of stuff out.
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Oh yeah, and as far as the voting thing, I do agree with the above comment in that it is sad that obviously many affected people did not get out to vote. More importantly, as I believe Hill's point is - it doesn't matter. Even if the entire texas gay population came out to vote, it would not have been enough. (17% gay is quite high and can't possibly be a Texas statistic, though I'd be curious to see a source)
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But I'm willing to bet that half of 17% is homosexual, or close enough to it that if all the homosexuals and their sympathizers had gone out and voted that they would have voted it down...and had to go vote it down every couple years...until it passed...
Dirty freakin' politics...
What really pisses me off is that this was a religious right attack on non-aggressors. That's just lame. I have the utmost respect for Christ, even though faith is beyond me at present. The church is just getting out of hand.
Next thing you know G-dub's going to be appointing the next Grand Inquisitor...
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The word is "chinmoku"...
And since I do know that "mokusatsu" can mean both "silence/no comment" and "to kill with silence"...(possibly the biggest translation error of all time [see WWII])
I'm going to assume that you're probably right.
On a side note... Damn. I'm impressed. :o)
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