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I hope that it becomes public very soon. As in, media appearances by Warren stating that he cares about gay and lesbian people. Otherwise, who's to say?
One could also ask- If Warren "loves gays" why pull out all the stops to defeat Prop 8, which denied equal rights? Why trot out all of the lies and myths and negative stereotypes about gays and lesbians in order to force its passage? Why campaign in your church and prod your flock and millions elsewhere to vote against it?
Personally, I think Tammy Lynn got snowed. The fundamental thing that Michaels seems to have missed is that Warren and people like him are hiding behind their religious beliefs in order to maintain a segregationist mentality. The "1200 laws" comment smacks to me of "separate but equal".
Am I the only one seeing this?
Right on!
It is my personal belief that the American tendency to tack a happy ending upon every incident or every tragedy cheapens the atrocity of the tragedy. We are raised in this culture to believe that the hero will win, that good will overcome and the "bad guy" will not get away. We are taught to believe that even in the face of the most horrifying atrocities that some "greater good" will come of it. In reality, I believe that this allows us the easy escape of not treating atrocities with the gravity they deserve.
Ultimately, we as a human race need to realise that there is nothing positive that comes of atrocity. NOTHING.
The best film of last year was the Coen brothers film "No Country For Old Men". A great majority of people I spoke to said "I liked the movie, but I hated the ending." Why? (Spoiler Alert) The bad guy gets away, the protagonist gets killed in an undignified manner, and the marshall pirsuing the killer (read:justice) chooses to back away because he realizes that confronting the killer directly would cost him his own life.
Coulter's act is worn through and tired. It's retroactive and knee jerk and offers nothing beyond petulant and childish behavior.
Liberals want to destroy America? Hard to believe when the Republican party- in charge for the past eight years- has done exactly that.
Referrring to President elect Obama as "B. Hussein Obama" is a perfect example of how immature Coulter's mindset is. I'm happy that Lauer confronted her directly on this. It was nothing more than a fear tactic, and a bad one at that.
Lauer is right- the American people want to move on. The election of Obama has proven that we as a country have taken a collective look at ourselves and realize that we need to change. This means that people like Coulter with their empty rhetoric will righfuly be marginalized simply because this rhetoric offers nothing in the solution of serious problems.
Coulter says "the next four years will be a surprise" and in that regard I am in complete agreement. It will be a surprise to have competent governmental leadership by qualified individuals, who truly have the best interests of all Americans at heart, and not just those of the wealthy or their cronies.
Unhappy with George W. Bush? Well, you're deluded. Didn't you know that EVERYTHING bad that has happened in the past twenty years is all the fault of one man? William Jefferson Clinton! It's true! And he even murdered people! Look it up!
Before that, everything was the fault of Jimmy Carter. And before him, FDR. Poor Dubyuh, he just inherited a mess and did the best he gosh-darn could. But the world was against him, and the damn liberals too. Poor, poor Dubyuh.
Trolls, Neo-Cons, whatever you are. The past eight years and the utter disaster it has created is ALL the fault of the utterly incompetent Bush administration. Anyone with any intelligence or clarity realizes this, and all of the revisionism and denial you all spout will not change this fact.
These images are very unsettling, and perhaps the most unsettling part is that so many of us (myself included) believed they were real images, and not photoshopped. What does it say about our culture that this type of body image is so common in our media? How is it that we are considered by some to be the most prosperous nation on earth, but we allow the projection of body images that are mythical in their rarity, and grossly unhealthy to boot? How many people really conform to these bizarre concepts of beauty?
We've come a long, strange way in the past thirty years in regard to beauty, and our depiction of women in the media. Watch any movie from the 1970's or 80's and you'll see healthy looking women with natural beauty. Today, many actresses and models are highly polished Frankenstein monsters- they're botoxed until they become expressionless, lips full of collagen, hair weaves, and cheek implants that look so bizarre and cat like I find it hard to believe people find it attractive. How did we get to this point?