If you consider yourself a Christian, can you give me your opinion of something
Cutie
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Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 09:14:15 AM
read something on a blog for Christian voters that l found so profound and Cutie intelligent, that l thought everyone should read it.
My Registered User question is: after reading this, what do you think of her statement? Joined: Friday, 4th of June 2010, 18:02:37 />
It is quite long but, l urge you to try and read at least most of Posts: 1285 it. The poster is responding to another blogger who stated that now that Viewed 3048 times McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as her running mate, Christians should vote
for him. Below is her response.
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Donna Brooks
(Columbus, OH) replied to Dennis is poston Sep 5, 2008 at 5:53 AM/>Shane, you are being hoodwinked by the right-wing again. When l was in
college, l and my Christian friends voted for Reagan and were so excited
because we wanted to see Rove v. Wade overturned. Here we are, a quarter
century later, and they are still using that same carrot to get
Evangelicals all riled up to vote against the Dem candidate. Ca not you
see that it is manipulation?
The Republicans have had CONTROL
of ALL 3 BRANCHES of government for 6 out of the last 8 years. From
2000-2006, the Repubs had a majority in Congress, a so-called ''pro-life''
President, and 7 of the 9 judges on the Supreme Court were appointed by
your Republican candidates. Yet, no legislation was ever passed to
challenged Roe v. Wade. Why not? Could it be because right-wing
Evangelicals are like Pavlov is dogs, and once the meme
''Republicans-good; Democrats-baaaaaaad'' is implanted in their heads,
then all the far right has to do is play the ''Dems - baaaaaad'' abortion
tune and Evangelicals HAVE to dance with their candidate, regardless of
ANY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS!!
This administration and the
Republicans in Congress who have loyalties to party over country has:
broken laws, lied to the American people hundreds of times, violated the
Constitution, ignored subpoenas, attacked any efforts to hold them
accountable as ''partisan'' and ''unpatriotic started a war against an
enemy who did not attack us, has approved of TORTURE, indefinite
detentions without charges or access to a lawyer, has broken our treaties
with other countries, has plunged millions of Americans into poverty with
their HORRID economic policies, has filled the coffers of Big oil,
pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, Wall Street investors, and
the Saudi Royal family (an oppressive Islamic dictatorship, BTW), blocked
all efforts to have a health care plan so that the 45 MILLION Americans
who can not afford healthcare can have it, has subsidized the meat,
nuclear, & oil industries,-- which are DESTROYING the Earth and its
ability to sustain life as well as God is other creatures, and fired
Federal attorneys who were independent and refused to prosecute only
Democrats!!
What part of all that is Christian?
You
will never hear this on right-wing so-called ''Christian'' radio. They are
just a propaganda machine for the far-right. These people are LYING to you,
man!! They are the party of BUSINESS, of SELLING, of MARKETING, of
ADVERTISING. It is all packaging. Like Jesus said, they are white-washed
tombs,-- beautiful on the outside, but inside fill with decay and the
bones of the dead!
Sarah Palin is hardly a ''real treat'' for
Christian voters. Your ONLY consideration is that she is ''pro-life''. l
am really disgusted that a party that is so PRO-KILLING has done such a
good job of marketing themselves as being THE ''pro-life'' party. />
Consider abortion, for example. Abortion in the U.S. was on a
steady decline the entire time that Bill Clinton was in office, but then
started steadily increasing under Bush. An increase of 50,000 MORE
abortions in Bush is FIRST TERM. Why? ECONOMIC POLICIES. People are
STRUGGLING economically. Even l am struggling just for food and shelter,--
for the first time in my life!! In the 90's, EVERYONE did better, -- the
wealthy, yes, but also the middle class and the poor, who were able to
climb out of poverty. l did not have an economic care in the world in the
'90s, but l did not know how good l had it until now.
/>Conservatives are all about using FORCE, FEAR, and PUNISHMENT to *make
other people do what they want*. Is that the way of Jesus?
For
example, they wanna PUNISH women who get pregnant by forcing them to carry
the baby to term, but they insist on abstinence-ONLY education, on blocking
access to birth control, and they do not do anything to help them get
pre-natal health care or to help them after the child is born. The
conservative paradigm is ''you're on your own''. Right-wing talk radio
even MOCKS children who came to testify to the need for healthcare for the
11 million children without it in this country. Do not let them fool you.
These people are not ''pro-life''. They are pro-pregnancy, and l think it
stems from a deep misogyny that says that women who havemust be punished.
If they really wanted to prevent abortions, then they would advocate
for insurance companies and assistance programs to pay for BIRTH CONTROL,
and NOT VIAGRA.
Look at Sarah Palin. She advocates for
abstinence-only education, cut funding for programs in Alaska to help
pregnant teens, wants to have the government decide how many kids you are
going to have, wants to remove the protections for the Polar Bear as an
Endangered Species, and wants to open ANWR for drilling for oil. Drilling
more holes and destroying more of God is earth to feed our ADDICTION to
ease, comfort, convenience, and THINGS is not good national energy policy,
nor is it good stewardship.
Her policy is not about getting us
independent from ''foreign oil''. It is about bringing home PORK to
Alaska. Oil is a finite resource. Solar and wind energy are completely
CLEAN, will never run out as long as the Earth is here, are FREE, and
abundant. Yet Republicans have subsidized (with taxpayer money) nuclear
energy and Big Oil for decades, while eliminating incentives for wind and
solar. WHY? Maybe it is because corporations can not CONTROL the flow of
FUEL with solar and wind, the way they can with extractive industries,
including uranium. Whoever controls the fuel, controls the price. />Oh, Sarah Palin also has a bounty on wolves shot from airplanes. $150
for each front left foreleg. Do you think that pleases God? More
''collateral damage''?
Look also at the double standard:/>Could you imagine how the conservatives would be attacking Hillary or
Barack Obama for bad parenting and not being able to even manage their own
household if one of THEIR daughters became pregnant as a teen? Yet they
manage to turn this same situation into some kind of VIRTUE for Sarah
Palin?
So conservatives are ''pro-life'' as long as you are
human, Christian, American, wealthy enough to afford health care, and
unborn.
Once you're born, that is it. It is everyone for
himself.
There is more if you go to the link. It is very long, but
there are many more great points.
Huggy Bear
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Thursday, 12th of August 2010 12:24:40 AM
. Huggy Bear What a great question! Registered User . Joined: Friday, 14th of May 2010, 14:03:09 I agree with you that Solar & wind energy are completely CLEAN, will never Posts: 1950 run out as long as the Earth is here, are FREE, & abundant. Viewed 12382 times .
I agree with you that conservatives are ''pro-life''
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I agree 100% with you that Sarah Palin is ''pro-life''.
They say Sarah Palin is 'AMERICA'S HOTTEST GOVERNOR'
Palin is a former ''Miss Wasilla'' who was elected the town is mayor at
age 32.
Palin is Alaska is first women governor, the state is youngest chief
executive, & one of the most beloved governors in the state is history.
Palin is the Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard !
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Good Luck !
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