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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (10107)	3/30/2001 1:07:52 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Unless there is a strong constitutional reason to desist, the majority gets its way.......... That's the way it does work, not the way it should work. Neo, say you had all of the Boxing Ring gang over for dinner. You'd serve something vegetarian. To do otherwise would be rude. I don't care if you are famous far and wide for your Beef Wellington and you traditionally fix it every Sunday. You wouldn't serve it that Sunday because that would be rude and you'd know better. You would restrain you desire to show off your Beef Wellington out of respect for the vegetarians in the group. If you had you're kid's soccer team and their families over for a cook-out and, soccer being an international sport and you living in a diverse area, and a couple of the kids were Hindu. You wouldn't but a side of beef on a spit. That would be rude. It's bad manners for hosts to not go out of their way to make everyone to feel included and comfortable. I know you know I'm not suggesting that rudeness should be illegal, only that it should carry more weight with our saintly neighbors. Regarding the benediction, the non-Christian kids are graduating, too, and it's not OK to ruin the occasion for them. I would think it would be quite possible to have a benediction that would be sufficiently general not to poke anyone in the eye and still add appropriate solemnity to the occasion. No-one needs to be gored, perhaps just a bit disappointed. Karen P.S. [I presume you heard the story about how I got "excommunicated" for attending my high school baccalaureate service. And how we said Protestant prayers in my public grammar school, me, Catholic, and my best friend, Jewish. Terrible thing to do to little kids.]