tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post6535103122534462387..comments2024-03-27T19:55:45.373-04:00Comments on Nat Turner's Revenge: Cockroach in the Potato SaladChristopher Chambershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981041389119024155noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-62534725304596479522008-11-24T10:22:00.000-05:002008-11-24T10:22:00.000-05:00Monica - did the people who raised you try and sel...Monica - did the people who raised you try and sell you into slavery? (Exodus 21:7). How about a good old stoning for working on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2)? Or better yet, a stoning for planting different crops side by side? Ever wear garments made from two different threads? People who can be literal about one line from the Bible and not ALL, are nothing more than bigots using the Bible excuse their narrow views. Unfortunately, they are assisting the more dangerous (powerful) bigots with their hateful agenda of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. in support of economic exploitation and militarism. It would be comical were it not so frightening. <BR/><BR/>"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist..." Pastor Martin Niemoller<BR/><BR/>Hate is the only abomination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-70471326195536763292008-11-14T21:02:00.000-05:002008-11-14T21:02:00.000-05:00Thank you for reminding everyone of the most criti...Thank you for reminding everyone of the most critical thing; YOU NEED A LICENSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT. Government has no right to abridge anyone's freedom.Robert Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185050343412425610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-79633732935295297372008-11-14T19:30:00.000-05:002008-11-14T19:30:00.000-05:00The proposition should not have been on the ballot...The proposition should not have been on the ballot in the first place. It isn't a religious question, so it shouldn't require someone to vote against their conscience or not.<BR/>Most states in this country had at one time acknowledge common law marriage, which was determine how a couple represented themselves over a period of time. It didn't require that they had sex or children. It provided certain legal rights to each of the couple. There was no ceremony involved, neither civil nor religious and <B>yes it was called marriage.</B> If they state decided to call this marriage, it can call the union of same sex couples, marriage. It has nothing to do with the tenets of any religion.<BR/><BR/>I think too many people think of this country as a theocracy, believing all the recent trash of this country being founded as a Christian nation.<BR/><BR/>What black people tend to forget that slavery and segregation was upheld by religious Christian people. They voted their beliefs too.Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657524404057819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-79675182137159478022008-11-13T22:45:00.000-05:002008-11-13T22:45:00.000-05:00Maybe it's because I'm from the rural South, but m...Maybe it's because I'm from the rural South, but most of the people who raised me are opposed to gay marriage and abortion and support the death penalty. I did ask them but I'm sure they are against gay adoption also. They aren't conservatives, but they are traditionalists. These people being opposed to prop 8 is independent of where they attend church or who there pastor may be. It's in the Bible and that good enough for them.<BR/><BR/>Wouldn't it be wrong to ask someone against their religious beliefs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-53572075488811811332008-11-13T15:41:00.000-05:002008-11-13T15:41:00.000-05:00I dunno Dredd--black folks provided the margin of ...I dunno Dredd--black folks provided the margin of victory when, with record black turnout, we went 70% in favor. It was only 56% for Hispanics. The contrast is also bizarre: we go 70% in favor of this but go 95% for Barack, who is a liberal and contra to so much right wing GOP politics. <BR/>It is the same sort of ignorance that is revealed when blakc people say "Who cares about Nebraska?"<BR/>The thing in Arkansas is even more frightening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-70368154764634780532008-11-13T11:58:00.000-05:002008-11-13T11:58:00.000-05:00I think you're way off this time, Chris. Your arg...I think you're way off this time, Chris. Your arguement about the hypocrisy(sp?). Well, at least in reference to the Prop 8 issue. Blacks only make up 7% of the Cali population so how in the world are we/they whole-heartedly responsible for the passing of that bill?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-27826043251541602202008-11-13T11:08:00.000-05:002008-11-13T11:08:00.000-05:00Marriage takes place under the umbrella of religio...Marriage takes place under the umbrella of religion and Civil Unions same sex or not take place at the court house. The word Marriage belongs to Religion, IMHO. When I married my husband, I did not have a religious ceremony and some in my family said, "I was only married in the eyes of the law and not by GOD". To which I responded "AND, YOUR POINT IS?". I don't need religion to certify what I do but should someone else want that i.e. Gays wanting marriage, that is a real problem. I can neither make a Christian , Jew or Muslim believe that they must marry Gays no more than they can make me want to have a religious ceremony preformed by any one of them. Maybe gays should try to think of another word besides marriage and How about WED? It has the same meaning but not the religious component, I think. Let "marriage" stay in the church. Let people WED in the courthouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-54095710957473078822008-11-13T06:23:00.000-05:002008-11-13T06:23:00.000-05:00Sometimes I forget HOW passionate you can be!BRAVO...Sometimes I forget HOW passionate you can be!<BR/>BRAVO!<BR/><BR/>When people will comprehend that this caring is the REAL patriotism, and not branding insecurities as dogmas.Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira, aka Ochyminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05445826442297755219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-11848334777095102172008-11-13T00:14:00.000-05:002008-11-13T00:14:00.000-05:00This whole thing is a disgrace.This whole thing is a disgrace.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08134554508117555404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34770350.post-66252678893934006962008-11-12T23:26:00.000-05:002008-11-12T23:26:00.000-05:00Now I have to wonder what Arkansas plans to do to ...Now I have to wonder what Arkansas plans to do to encourage more straight, married people to adopt? Ban foreign adoptions? Offer tax rebates? <BR/><BR/>As for the increase in the number of children who will now be left in the system, where will the money come from to take care of them? Are they going to increase taxes in the state?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com