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Republicans pick and choose their morality.
posted by
SlyCy
on October 17, 2006 at 6:39 AM
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Republicans choose their morality and then accuse others of doing the same
thing! Their hypocrisy sickens me.
posted by
SlyCy
on October 17, 2006 at 6:39 AM
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Very well put. I was thinking of this the other day in the context of how
I might defend a vote for Democrats despite their difference with most Americans over gay marriage. I believe most people will come to tolerate gay marriage in time (or at least, all the legal privileges of marriage even without the title), but until they do, there's still a reason for working people with conservative values to support more democratic and Democratic policies (small d and big d are not always the same): You can't eat traditional marriage. Well done.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on November 11, 2004 at 6:55 AM
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Thanks!
Just so you KNOW it! Thanks for your comments. I have been pondering a blog along this line and will see what I can throw together. In the meantime, ya'all have a good week!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on November 7, 2004 at 7:51 PM
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JanesOpinion
This should have truly been a blog. The big picture is that there are bad people in any movement, however, it is this name calling that is so small. No one with any civility would want that sort of thing running the country. They don't understand what they are doing is costing more from the government than what is being done. I like your research and the facts speak for themselves. I really think this would be a good post.
posted by
Justi
on November 7, 2004 at 7:14 PM
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I beg to differ . . .
Westwend, I completely disagree with you on this morality issue. True, I probably fit the description to a degree of CR – to borrow your term – although I wholeheartedly disagree with the Christian Tyrant label for myself, so I won’t be borrowing that term. It looks to me like you pick and choose the morals you wish to discuss. But consider this: more than two billion dollars are spent yearly on pornography – to the detriment of the family unit and economy. Gambling—and I don’t mean the occasional weekend trip to Vegas, but rather the addicted gamblers which are becoming increasingly more common -- wrecks havoc on a family’s economy and has emptied countless savings and retirement accounts.
Furthermore, according to a study in the British Medical Journal, high infection rates are squarely due to “unbridled promiscuity.” These are their words, not mine. This study, with experts from the Global Fund for Aids, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (not conservative, by any stretch of the imagination) and the US Agency for International Development concluded that “it seems obvious but there would be no global AIDS pandemic where it not for multiple sexual partnerships.” In another blogging comment of mine, I observed that in this country, it takes about $300,000 to treat each AIDS victim. So you tell me about economics and morality.
You pick and choose as to which moral values you wish to throw out, and which ones to keep. OK, so promiscuity is not an issue in your book so heck, pitch that one. How about adultery? And greed – I could really rant on about expenses associated with that. Or stealing? Hell – why not throw out the Ten Commandments completely. Sounds like that’s what you’re aiming for when you talk about removing them from public. So then murder’s OK? When you throw out morality, you’ll find that the cost of everything goes up. Taxes will certainly increase because more cops will be required to enforce more laws and the bureaucracy that goes along with these laws. We need these moral values to govern our lives. They were not given to Moses by an angry God bent on destroying our pleasure. Moral values were given by God for our protection, and I for one am grateful to have them.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on November 6, 2004 at 11:13 AM
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Yes,
it's a sad day for the United States and the world. I don't know how we can protect the economy, the environment, women's rights, all of it, from him, but I'm going to keep trying. For over 12 years, I lived among many fundamentalist Christian types. Some were nice, caring people, but many were self-absorbed with their "God" beliefs, while physically abusing their wives and children, lying, cheating ("outsiders" don't get the same treatment as those in the inner circle), fornicating, and bearing false witness to further their own ends and egos. It wasn't pretty. From what I've read lately, even Pat Robertson is drawing away from Bush because of his "messenger of God" complex. Thank Heaven it's Christianity he espouses, not Aryanism.
posted by
Witchflower
on November 6, 2004 at 10:04 AM
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Christian Morality
Your post is well said--there is a moral void among Christians and they blame that on the "non" christian. Any society built on Christian Morality is going to be void of morality that has any human virtue--human value--G. James Stewart wrote in his book, Immorality of Christianity :
From the core of the shame-based religion of Christianity, wave after wave of immoral problems foam up on the shores of life, debilitating and defeating mankinds ability to realize and achieve reality-based moral goodness. The God-centered mind, with its opposition to the reality of this existence, through the faith in some unseen realm, is a breeding ground for immoral problems. One doesn't have to look far to see the effects of preaching sin, shame and guilt on the society of man, for it is chiefly from these sick ideas that man learns to feel ill of himself and find fault with his natural existence. As the awful message of sin nature (195) works its insidious ideals into the minds of people, immoral behavior rises to fruition. The worst of these behaviors being that of living a life of pretense of moral goodness while pointing the finger and blaming those who are wrestling with the false issues of sin, and are being torn asunder to feel helplessly lost between the imaginary forces of good and evil. (read the whole post here: Sin Nature)
The real immorality isn't who is marrying whom--it is denying the worth of humanity by dividing it into segments and defining others as "unworthy" of basic needs to sustain a healthy, peaceful and prosperous existence based upon the BELIEF there is a Supreme Being.
Peace,
Freerain
posted by
freerain
on November 5, 2004 at 7:18 PM
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I Guess...
your Episcopalian denomination teaches some sort of other morality? It is unbelievable how liberals are so afarid of God and morality. How dare this nation move closer to God! I would think that all religions would support some type of morals. Whine, whine, whine westwend.
posted by
RedStatesMan
on November 5, 2004 at 7:07 PM
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Hold on to your seat
This is going to be a harsh 4 years. Bush can do anything he wants now.
posted by
Montezuma
on November 5, 2004 at 11:03 AM
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