–W.B. Yeats “Among School Children”

The anti-gay crazy just scratches the surface of those awful awful people.

Why weep at something like that?

I hope that when I die if there are small children there, poor dears, nobody makes them wear stiff clothes and that everybody feels like not moping around. I’d rather have kids laughing than a bunch of tears. Life has so many tears already. I might even hire someone to come do magic tricks, or play the tuba or something, but I don’t think anyone would get the joke.

Is your comparison more based upon the fact that the parent who tries to stop the child from giggling focuses on the wrong thing? While i initially associated giggling in church with my experience at hearing those dreaded words “Erika [my middle and last name] if you do not stop that, you will get a spanking” i did not think that generally when i was giggling in church it was because my sister whose favorite game was to get me in trouble was making funny faces at me. By focusing on my reaction rather than what my sister’s original action, my mother punishing me for giggling actually was encouraging much more giggling..

Hence, i seem to have totally misunderstood your point which more consideration makes clear. Sorry :)

What I mean is that it strikes me as funny that anyone would get upset that I quote the bible simply because I am a buddhist, or feel like they need to wag the finger at me for embracing Christian teachings.

Buddhism is about ending suffering. It’s not about practicing religion.

Complete with sex change…here strictly to derail the discussion!

So, Annie/Jason…do tell us how the Holocaust never happened!

Then tell us how the Russian people greeted their Nazi invaders with flowers!

Then tell us how Norman Rockwell sided with Hitler!

Then show us your proof that the white man is superior to the black man!

And tell us again how you’ll prove it to us, only if we pay you vast sums of money, showing that you’re into neo-Nazism and junior Fascism for that noblest of purposes…the money!

Then you can give us citations and evidence for all these wacky ideas!

Until then, the tumbrels await for you!

See? I don’t even have to think in dealing with him/her/it…I just cut-and-paste my own stuff!

And pretty much the rest of the country is learning what people in Virginia already know about Eric Cantor – he’s a total partisan hack (and career politician who actually makes the vomit enducing claim that he “enteied public service” when as a 16 year old his rich parents and Congressman Thomas Bliley (R-Philip Morris) got him as Congressional Page position) in his official biography and my understanding is that he never had a real job in his life (not even with his daddy’s law firm). For both the FRC and Eric Cantor all that matters is that they are both Republicans – it doesn’t matter that the FRC spreads lies about Nazi Germany and downplays the Holocaust and keep in mind that the AFA is co sponsoring this thing – for a pure partisan hack like Cantor it doesn’t even matter that the Rev. Donald Wildon was generally considered Anti-Semitic based upon what he said about Jews controlling the media.

Incidentially, i do kind of have to appreciate the sense of dark humor which Philip Morris shows in their selection of Congressmen for Virginia’s 7th District – Tom Bliley was a funeral director whose family all owns funeral homes. Eric Cantor is a lawyer whose family are all lawyers – many of which happen to practice plaintiffs personal injury law.

Let me know how that goes over.

–Ryokan (1758-1831)

Right, Annie. Because WSs like you are all about letting people do and be what they want, and if you don’t like it, just don’t participate and everything’s okay. Live and let live. You pathetic hypocrite.

Maybe, the SPLC should put Gov. Jan Brewer on the hatewatch list. Right up there with David Duke, Black, Kobach and others.

What makes you think you have any credibility or traction on this site? The kindest possible assessment of your history of comments is that you are an imbecile and I am being generous in that assessment. No matter how many times you change your name we will know you, just as a tree is known by its fruits. Or, in your case, by its nuts.

In the real world you are probably shunned by all except your klavern/cell for the simple fact that your inner malignant personality is probably impossible to disguise. So, in an act of stunning bravery made possible by the anonymity of the internet, you come here to grace us with your copypasta idiocy.

In all sincerity, thanks, but we’ve seen everything you have to offer. Really. You have introduced nothing new to the conversation but the same old shit that old people like myself, and others, have seen for the past half century.

However, I am a realist and can only speculate as to the new identity that you will be commenting under in the near future. STDs and racist jackasses are the gifts that just keep giving.

Also, since I don’t view the bible as anything more than a collection of stories and politically useful “laws,” why would I want to legitimize it as THE ULTIMATE DOCUMENT by referencing it in my own arguments?

If others choose to believe in it, that is their business, but I don’t believe in it myself, and have no interest in basing my own arguments on it.

While it is true that people can (and do) believe what they wish, some beliefs (or the way people interpret them or wish to act upon them) are damaging to the individuals who hold them and/or to society. Tolerance is vital, in part because people often move through various “stages” as they develop their own relationship with the world. However, blindly accepting anything others believe isn’t a virtue. “Strange” beliefs shouldn’t be dismissed or condemned out of hand, but neither should they be uncritically embraced. Learning how and when to make such assessments — while continuing to keep the door open, but also willing to slam it shut if a werewolf bent on eating everyone is trying to get inside is all part of the hard work that we all need to do in order the grow.

Also, BBQ LOL ICBM ATM IBM. SUV.

The answer is simple. If you don’t like the FRC, don’t go to their conference and don’t visit their website. They have formed their own organization that represents their beliefs and their value system. They don’t need you. Go away. If you want to form your own organization that reflects your value system, then you go off and you do that.

Sam, I don’t think homosexuality is a sin.

Glad to see you are back. I think you migth have missed a few questions of mine in other threads.

1) How do you determine if someone is ‘white’ before feeling comfortable around them?

2) Are the white supremacists who went on a murder spree the sort of people you feel comfortable around?

Although it is crude, a saying I once heard from a dear, dear, but crude friend, describes FRC to a T: “They act like their shit don’t stink–but their farts give’em away.”

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

After reviewing the FRC website I find nothing bad or offensive about their position statements. I agree with them. I am glad they are having a conference and I am glad that Paul Ryan is speaking there. There is nothing wrong with the FRC. I urge other posters here to go to the FRC website, review their statements, and form their own opinion.