Several things: There is a certain segment of the population that is so paranoid and so polarized that it has lost all grounding.
That's GOTTA be it<ggg>....Don't forget I live in Leftwing Seattle...where about 80% of the core city voted (several times it appears) for Kerry because they "liked him"....
But there are some "sane" folks here as well. There certainly is no concessus on, or of, freedoms being damaged, but there is certainly an awareness that some of American culture for the last 350+ years has been eroding. Slavery was wrong, and it's gone. But the slaves had religion and even that is being trompled today.
Re: offering a solution. Yes. If the way the Pledge is to be said, then whoever is the leader should be saying it it in the current legal way. If people in the group don't want to say it, or a part of it, that is their right. But at least the present iteration should be adhered to by the speaker.
Re your comment on Jackson and Sharpton....I gave this some thought this afternoon, and came back to my original conclusion. Your statement, IMO, was not only uncalled for, but wrong...
Sharpton and Jackson I think of as professional blacks, not professional Christians. There are no professional Christians on the left, either the political left or the religious left, I don't think. That would be a contradiction.]
First, you forgot to add, that both of these guys add The REV. in front of their names. That does imply a religious belief.
Second, what is a "professional black?" Is that like a "professional white"? Or is that a racist comment?
Sharpton and Jackson ARE hypocrites, IMO. Both go to various churches, which have a non-profit status, and from the pulpit, tell the congregations how to vote!!! We know they did, because of reports in the media that they told the parishioners to vote for Gore, and later to vote for Kerry.
As far as "no professional Christians on the left"...IF you'd been to a church in the past few years, chances are, you'd prove yourself wrong. Some is done in the guise of "charity", or "helping the third world", but much is done in the name of "anti-war"..... Remember Angela Davis? Even back in the 1970's, churches were supporting various political groups and thoughts. |
