News to piss you off. :-D

[emmagrant01]

• School drops slavery booklet: "Southern Slavery, As It Was" is a 43-page booklet published in 1996 that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery. It asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people believe. This is exactly why I don't accept Biblical claims against homosexuality. People have historically used the Bible to justify slavery, racial segregation, and treating women as second class citizens. I don't really give a shit if the Bible says that you should treat certain people as less than fully equal; I don't think it's right. I thought Jesus had a slightly different message anyway.

• Feds Use 'Secret Laws' to Justify Harassment of Americans. Don't get me started! :-P

• U.S. Admits Torture Used to Obtain Evidence Against Terrorists. Geneva Conevention? What Geneva Convention?

• Less than seven months after same-sex couples began tying the knot in Massachusetts, the state is seeing its first gay divorces. A quote: Opponents of gay marriage said the divorces, occurring so soon after the weddings, confirm that gay couples are not equipped for marriage. "We're not surprised," said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, which is fighting for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. "Particularly among male homosexuals, the promiscuity is just phenomenal." *rolls eyes and gives Ms. Mineau a one-finger salute*

• Jesus is on our side here, and secular liberals should not be afraid to invoke him. Policies of pre-emptive war and the upward redistribution of wealth are inversions of the Judeo-Christian ethic, which is for the most part silent, or mysteriously cryptic, on gays and abortion. Okay, so that one wasn't intended to piss you off! ;-)

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[brightsun301.livejournal.com]

"A quote: Opponents of gay marriage said the divorces, occurring so soon after the weddings, confirm that gay couples are not equipped for marriage. "We're not surprised," said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute"

To tell the truth, not that I'm on their(MFI) side, I'm not surprised either. You know at least one couple in every, or every other, county got married as a spur of the moment thing. Then the novelty wore off. Marriage, no matter what gender coupled, is something that you really need to -mean- or else it's just a waste of time. People that are doing it just to do it give the others a bad name..

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. This was going to happen eventually. Just as many gay couples as straight couples are going to get married on the spur of the moment and later realize it was a mistake. Straight people do it all the time, and no one blinks an eye. Gay couples who marry are going to be under the microscope, unfortunately.

[brightsun301.livejournal.com]

To true.. and sad. Another reason I wish I was born male, prove all those bastards wrong. Granted I could just go marry a girl and prove them wrong that way, but girls is NUTS! *giggle* *snugglez her favorite men-people*