Weekend Open Thread
Welcome to your weekend open thread. I assume many ofmyoumare traveling this weekend. How’s the beach? What are your holiday plans?
As I studied the Scriptures more and further expanded my circle of gay friends, getting to know more parents and siblings of gays, my thinking changed.
Domestic partnerships are better than the OCA’s vile agenda, but only one step better. Having marriage for heterosexuals and domestic partnerships for homosexuals is like having “separate but equal” schools for white and black Americans during segregation. “Equal” in that situation never is truly equal.
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The gay people I know don’t share a common “agenda,” but they do share a hungering for equal treatment and equal opportunity.
Don’t all parents hope for their kids to marry the person of the children’s dreams? Why should that joyous opportunity be denied certain Americans because of their biological makeup? And why would homosexual marriages be any threat to my wife’s and my 34-year marriage — or any marriage?
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The Bible contains explicit admonitions against homosexuality. I don’t think that believers should pick and choose which verses they follow, heeding only the Scripture with which they agree and discarding the rest.
As they say, go read the whole thing. I think this kind of thing – people changing their minds once they come in contact with LGBT people – is what scares the same-sex marriage opponents the most. It’s hard to demonize people as other when they are your neighbor and in the PTA with you.
This is a good thing – a return of sensible GOP politicians.
I wrote a couple of items this week about the dearth of grown-ups in the Republican Party, but in fairness, I should note that GOP adults exist. They’re just not in Congress.
For example, former Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, is so frustrated with his party’s tactics on the debt ceiling, he’s created a “truth squad” with members of the H.W. Bush administration in the hopes of explaining reality to congressional Republicans.
“The debt’s coming due, and they say it isn’t coming due,” Domenici said in a recent interview. “They’re wrong.”
He expressed frustration that his party may be willing to let the debt limit be ruptured. “Who do we get?” he asked. “Bring God down, Christ” to make the case against doing so? […]
The current standoff, he added, “is absolutely beyond my comprehension.”
I hope the GOP elder statesman can talk some sense into Congress but I’m not hopeful. Domenici is no RINO, he’s a conservative in good standing. I think the only retired pol that can talk sense into them is George W. Bush. I wonder if he’s working behind the scenes or is he as useless as he’s always been.
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Nice Celia post
http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/7-11top10legislators.asp
Sorry to post this here, but I figured the Open Thread was the best choice to hijack–
A longtime family friend has gone missing. Please call 911 if you see him or his cream colored 1985 GMC pickup truck.
Here is the Gold Alert as posted at WDEL.com.
Thank you.
I’m so sorry anon40. I’ll post this link on Twitter as well.
Thank you, U.I. His family is hurting. He’s diabetic and he suffers from sporadic dementia. He usually takes 2 insulin shots each day, so the chances of a happy ending decrease exponentially w/ each passing hour. His friends & family have been searching for him since 9pm Friday. We’ve covered hundreds of miles of roads in NCC & Southern Chester County PA & found no sign of him or his truck. Any and all help is welcomed and appreciated.
I put it on Twitter with the #NetDE tag, so hopefully someone will see it.
Alan Simpson called the GOP’s stance on the budget and debt ceiling bullshit.
Thanks again, U.I.
Curly at about 12:58 pm today: “Tolerance is not a Christian virtue.”.
The DOJ files a detailed brief on the unconstitutionality of DOMA.
This is hopeful, but I can’t tell if this is arguing that all of DOMA is unconstitutional or just this Section 3.
Aoine on Curley @2141 tonight
“Curley is not a christian either”
U.I.–My friend has been found. He’s alive & currently in a hospital in Baltimore. Thank you for your efforts.
Good news!
glad he’s safe anon40 – what a relief!
Have you guys been reading the thread on DP about the Sussex County Council being sued for its prayer?
It just got hilarious!
“You aren’t going to get an answer, Frank. How many times have I asked Don Ayotte the same simple question over and over again? he justifies his refusal to answer by saying he doesn’t need to answer because I am “irrelevant.” I have to assume he thinks you are also “irrelevant.”
“The same as we would not want a governnment run by religious zealots…”
Are you sure this isn’t what they want? Listen to what they are saying; how they are ignoring any good argument that is counter to theirs. Don Ayotte truly believes God listens more closely to prayers led by politicians.
And now i have been banned from posting comments. Do you see what they are doing, Frank?
“First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
I don’t read DP. I like my fiction to be better crafted and certainly more coherent than anything I’ve seen from over there.
WHOA…what’s going on in Thailand? Election there, son there, he says it’s crazy….90 protestors killed already…
Oh yeh…and GOD Blessed America!!!!
Hold everything..he’s w/ ASEAN, that was last election 90 killed, he’s laying low for now. I told him not to go work for someone who’s willing to pay for your visa for 4 months….geesh….kids.
Sudan has invaded Libya and seized oil fields in the southeast corner of the country.
I am sure it is all party of the dear leaders non-war plan.
Buck up, Frank Rich:
Where can I find a link to Obama’s 2012 budget proposal?
Step 1: Go to http://www.google.com.
Step 2: Type in “obama 2012 budget proposal,” without the quotes.
Step 3: Hit “Enter” or “Return,” depending on your computer.
so…what was supposed to happen?