Letters to the Editor
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RE: GlennGreenwald
Glenn, you say my views are repulsive, why? please explain? I know the answer. In my experience, trying to label my views about homosexuallity as "repulsive" means to me that you either don't have any morals or are affraid to express your own beliefs OR justify other immorality to cover your own. I'm not perfect, I'm a filthy sinner myself, but just as I would speak out against drunkeness, lust, porn, adultery, etc etc., I also speak about homosexuality as being immoral. If you think it is ok, fine, that's your belief. Thankfully, many states are passing bans against gay marriage to protect tradional values. I'm not a homophobe, I just don't treat homosexuality as a unavoidable fact, it is a choice to indulge in the lifestyle. A homosexual can not give into the desires just like a adulterous man can chose not to bed women outside his marriage. We all have the ability to make our own choices, you chose to accept homosexual acts as something just fine and dandy. I chose to not acccept it, your view is no better than mine. If you cannot handle this view, then perhaps you need to realize that there are these people who are not liberals and there are a lot of us and perhaps you should strive to understand our point of view even if you disagree with it...
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Two comments on the Logan act history
Add my thanks, sysprog, interesting. Two comments:
1) They should have had their heads examined sending Elbridge (is it really Elbridge? I always learned Eldridge) Gerry to do anything important.
2) In reference to comments made earlier, and to apparently some of the insinuations from around the White House, Syria being a State Sponsor of Terror has absolutely no bearing on the Logan Act.
Oddly enough, it DOES have bearing on people who participate in ISO standards meetings, they need to be briefed and debriefed because they are technically representing the USG. Way OT but an interesting fact.
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The new bubble?
With all that's been spinning around in the mad American kettle over the last few years, something just popped into my mind. I was thinking about how fringe much of the current politics and media of this country have become in recent years and I also noticed the increased roll the internet has played in both information sharing and in the dispersion of ideas & beliefs. It's given the fringe a much more front and center position than they've ever had in the past that much is certain. But now it's like a runaway train. It reminds me of the internet "bubble" before everything dotcom went ker-pluey.
Remember when anything and everything "tech" was the hot thing? Remember when companies were started or needed to hire in 20-something CEOs to ensure they were "savvy" or "plugged in"? Whether or not these new corporate rockstars knew anything about actually running a company was not seen as all that important and the investors dove in head first. To me there seems to be something in all this that is similar to that. All of this vile and hateful fringe right wing ideologue has been out there for years, it's just more front and center now. It's easier to access, and it's all so attention getting! It's the new American flag lapel pin... War is the new Peace... let's get R. Lee Ermey to do the commercials and we'll sell millions...you get the idea. So these politicians with this "new" message of ignorance and hate have become our nations new 20-something CEOs. It's like we've stopped paying attention to how to successfully and properly run a country (company) and we've gone all trendy in hiring in our new management. I just hope for all of our sakes that this horrible "bubble" pops sooner rather than later and doesn't bring the whole nation (company) down with it. I mean finding a new job is hard enough these days even with Craigslist or Monster, I can't even fathom how difficult finding a new country would be.
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RE: sajwan
"editing or deleting portions of a comment that run counter to his values. Also feels fine with arrogantly expressing Judea/Christian beliefs to justify his positions."
I don't edit or delete portions of a comment because it may counter my beliefs, I would edit or delete only if it is hostile, vulgar for vulgarity's sake, or plain threatening. It is my belief that someone can express themselves without personal attacks, name calling, hostility, threats, or vulgarity. You're welcome to bring a debate, discuss, even argue, but cross the line by any of the things I stated before, and I will delete/edit portions of your comment because it is my website, my house, you come to my home, you respect the host. I know that may be a foreign concept to some but, well, get over it....
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@JimC.
you should strive to understand our point of view even if you disagree with it...
There is no sense in "striving to understand" the so called point of view of someone who thinks like this:
I feel as if my children’s purity is under attack. That by being forced to accept alternative lifestyles, I cannot teach my children what I believe to be right and wrong.
You aren't being "forced". You're free to teach your children what you choose. Their "purity" isn't under attack. There is just nothing in that entire rant that makes any sense. That's why you come off as repulsive.
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RE: GlennGreenwald
RE: JimC
Speaking as a conservative and one of the resident trolls, this is over the line and irrelevant. Leave Glenn's personal life alone. He hasn't made it an issue and neither should you.
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Jim C:
I'm not perfect, I'm a filthy sinner myself, but just as I would speak out against drunkeness, lust, porn, adultery, etc etc.,
The point is that I really don't care about your private sins -- at all -- and would never go around preaching against them or expressing my moral views about them because it's really none of my concern.
I actually think as many people as possible should read the answer given by Rudy Giuliani when asked on CNN whether he agrees with Pete Pace's view that homosexuality is immoral:
GIULIANI: This is — we are getting — we are in the Easter season, and my view of Christianity — and Christianity is very important to me, the teachings of Jesus are very important to me. I kind think of when Jesus drew the line and said, you know, he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone.
So I don't go around judging other people. It isn't my role todetermine what is a sin, what isn't a sin. What my role is, what is legal, what is illegal, I have been really clear on that role throughout my life. I have done a pretty good job of putting people in jail who did things that were illegal.
And the rest of it I leave to the priests, the ministers, the rabbis, the imams and to your personal conscience. I think that's what Thomas Jefferson had in mind, and I think it's gotten America to being the greatest country in the world.
It never ceases to baffle why so many people have trouble with that self-evidently true claim. Why you think your views on the morality of homosexuality are of interest to anyone is equally baffling.