Letters to the Editor
farnsworth
Published Letters: 449 Editor's Choice: 21
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Doctine and Creed
[Read the article: Naughty nuns excommunicated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's their church. They decide what doctrine is. Creed is what they say it is. They get to do that. That's how it works.
If these women are espousing a belief that the senior members of the church have decided is against doctrine and violates the official creed, the church is wholly justified in excommunicating them.
It's their club, they decide who gets to join. Why should anyone who is not a member of the club, who is not interested in being a member of the club, give a damn?
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I hope Bush lives to be about 117
[Read the article: The war president "at peace" with himself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That way he will have years to experience historians and scholars the world over constantly excoriating him as the "Most Disastrous President."
After all, what other punishment could he endure? It's not like he is ever going to go to jail or lose his wealth.
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Refreshingly honest or just uninformed?
[Read the article: Fred Thompson: Refreshingly honest or just uninformed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's with the "or" here? He clearly is both.
He is clueless about many important issues the he needs to be aware of, and he is quite willing to admit his ignorance. Thus your headline contains a false premise.
Frankly, I think both attributes disqualify him for the position of leader of the most powerful nation on the earth.
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@ FilthyHarry
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Craig did was several levels beyond "a guy in a bar going up to a girl and saying, 'How about it?" What Craig did was try to actually instigate sex right there in the bathroom. He wasn't arrested for being gay, he was arrested for trying to instigate sex in a public restroom.
If you persist in willfully misinterpreting what Craig did, and choose to put your own interpretation, "being gay," on what he was arrested for, then I can see why you would consider it an injustice. But if you examine the actual facts of the case, he was clearly guilty of disorderly conduct. That was what he was arrested for. That was the charge he pleaded guilty to.
By pretending it had anything at all to do with "being gay," you are just supporting his hypocricy.
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Scary
[Read the article: Afghanistan's next top model]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I fear for the safety of every woman involved in this show. The models, the director, and any other woman even remotely associated with it. I don't think the time is right for this.
I hope I am wrong.
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Aren't We?
[Read the article: Blackwater and "Magic"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are finally going to wake up, aren't we?
Figger them odds.
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But really, who are you picking?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll go with the Phillies
Prediction: Rockies in five
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Re the Pfizer ads: Truth in Advertising
[Read the article: Red State Update: Little animals are good for the environment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Americans...are spending more on health care. At Pfizer, we are working on ways to help.
Pfizer in helping Americans spend more on health care. Bold of them to be so up front about it.
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@RunRun23
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does this actually mean that the "Postseason Package" I impulsively signed up for last week will not have any live games?
Yes, that's exactly what it means.
I impulsively signed up for it last year. And it was worthless then, too.
Don't worry, they will cheerfully refund your money if you call them up.
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Unitarian Universalism
[Read the article: My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The minister at my first Unitarian church has a saying: You have been a Unitarian all you life, you just didn't know it.
That applies to me extremely well. Perhaps it applies to the LW too. The cool thing about Unitarian Universalism is that it has no creed. Unlike Christian churches, it has no required belief. A creed is something that you must believe in order to participate, and Unitarian Universalism doesn't have one of those.
But it is still a church that teaches love and respect for others, and living a giving and caring life, and peace and justice for all. I think it would be of great benefit to your daughter to go there and experience that. It would probably be of great benefit to you as well.
When I was 13, I went all Southern Baptist for a while. Going to church every Sunday, buying all that saved and hellfire and elitist product they were selling. I went without my parents or sisters or anyone but the other kid my age from down the block. It didn't last too long. I mean, really, what rational person can keep up that kind of intensity for more than a couple of months?
I outgrew it. I think the LW's daughter will too. But it will be easier to outgrow it if she can see an alternative. A Unitarian church will give her that opportunity. And really, LW, you may find something for yourself there too.
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Destroy the party from within
[Read the article: Killing him with kindness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know a heterosexual couple who have been members of the Log Cabin Republicans for over a decade. These are two people whose primary reason for being Republicans is greed; that is, unwillingness to pay taxes. But they are foursquare against the conservative social positions of the Republicsns.
So they look at their membership in tne Log Cabin Republicans as "destroying the party from within."
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Greed
[Read the article: Killing him with kindness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Log Cabin Republicans are all about greed. That's the long and the short of it.
The Log Cabin Republicans are people whose greed far outstrips any other aspect of their personality. I have known many people in my life who see things through dollar-sign-shaped glasses. Some of them happen to be homosexual.
This is a group of people who have been described as Jewish Nazis. I personally find that description extreme and grotesque. But they certainly don't have the support of the majority of the gay community as far as I am aware.