http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid48695.asp
So I was perusing through the Advocate today and found this article rather interesting. The article is about religious leader Rev. D James Kennedy's passing Wednesday. this man, although not as popular as James Dobson, had much of the same ideals. He preached to his congragation about evanglizing every part of thier lives as well as the condemnation of homosexuality and abortion.
So this is why I found this interesting. With the political climate against the GLBT community people like this are very influential. People are looking to their religious leaders and trying to decide what to do, who to vote for, and what to believe. While this can be good, it can also be very bad. People have shown very clearly that they get lazy when it comes to civic engagement and if they only listen to whatever their religious figures say and don't think about it for themselves there can be alot of trouble. This case is especially true for the GLBT community. There are many religious leaders that condem homosexuality saying its immoral and unnatural. I believe its the fear of the unknown that they ultimatly say this. Yes I am a religious person, but I believe the Bible is open to much interpretation. My personal beliefs are it is not a choice to be homosexual just like its not a choice to be heterosexual. God made me this way and I do not question that. I know that is just me, and other people interepret it differently and there isn't anything I can do about that. In these cases I get rather aggraviated because they are excluding me. This all comes after a Republican debate where they discussed the Federal Marriage Amendment. Now this really REALLY makes me mad, because they are openly discriminating agianst Americans. This should not happen, but if people continue to just blindly listen to their religious leaders and don't do research themselves then I can definatly see this happening.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Giuliani criticized for speaking at 9/11
Here is the article I read, and just so you know, I don't typically use articles from a right-wing news station but I found this one and it made my mind wander.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294993,00.html
This article discusses presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani and his upcoming speech at ground zero on 9/11. Now I'm not usually a supporter of republicans, however I was taken back by how harsh people are against Mr. Giuliani. As Americans many people think that if you are running for public office everything you do is for your political gain. In this article it definatly comes out, however I am a bit skeptical. I believe yes many candidates do things to further their politcal careers but in this case I really believe he isn't doing this for that reason. Mr. Giuliani will always be remembered for his actions on 9/11 as the New York City mayor. If nothing else comes of his political career, that will always be what he is remembered by. That is one of the reasons why I am a bit skeptical that he is speaking at ground zero is for political gain. The other thing that makes me even more skeptical is he has done this for the past 5 years. Its tradition, I'm sure he will always be asked to speak on that anniversary.
So my mind wandered to the reasons why the American people are so skeptical of their politicians. My mind didn't have to wander for very long just for the fact of the answer is one of those DUH you didn't know that answers. People (and yes I am including myself in this, because there really isn't anyone who doesn't fall in this category) only see the bad things politicians do. Flip to any political news show, open any news paper, listen to any radio station all you hear is how our political leaders aren't doing right. This week we have heard about a Senator engaging in lewd activity in a public restroom, Hillary Clinton taking campaign donations from a wanted person, George Bush tossing another loyal member of his cabinent out the door. So heck yes people are going to be skeptical of politicians. All they ever do is the wrong thing, right? Well much of the non-civicly engaged public believe that answer is yes. And thats why people are so critical of politicians. So my words to the public, back off they are only human too. Yes there are dirty politicians, but if you really look and research you will find that most of them are good citizens that want to help their home states. And in this case with Rudy Giuliani, just let him be. Its practice that nobody campaigns on 9/11 and if you do that is just tactless. So breaking out of character, I'm going to say listen and believe him when he says he will not discuss his political campaign.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294993,00.html
This article discusses presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani and his upcoming speech at ground zero on 9/11. Now I'm not usually a supporter of republicans, however I was taken back by how harsh people are against Mr. Giuliani. As Americans many people think that if you are running for public office everything you do is for your political gain. In this article it definatly comes out, however I am a bit skeptical. I believe yes many candidates do things to further their politcal careers but in this case I really believe he isn't doing this for that reason. Mr. Giuliani will always be remembered for his actions on 9/11 as the New York City mayor. If nothing else comes of his political career, that will always be what he is remembered by. That is one of the reasons why I am a bit skeptical that he is speaking at ground zero is for political gain. The other thing that makes me even more skeptical is he has done this for the past 5 years. Its tradition, I'm sure he will always be asked to speak on that anniversary.
So my mind wandered to the reasons why the American people are so skeptical of their politicians. My mind didn't have to wander for very long just for the fact of the answer is one of those DUH you didn't know that answers. People (and yes I am including myself in this, because there really isn't anyone who doesn't fall in this category) only see the bad things politicians do. Flip to any political news show, open any news paper, listen to any radio station all you hear is how our political leaders aren't doing right. This week we have heard about a Senator engaging in lewd activity in a public restroom, Hillary Clinton taking campaign donations from a wanted person, George Bush tossing another loyal member of his cabinent out the door. So heck yes people are going to be skeptical of politicians. All they ever do is the wrong thing, right? Well much of the non-civicly engaged public believe that answer is yes. And thats why people are so critical of politicians. So my words to the public, back off they are only human too. Yes there are dirty politicians, but if you really look and research you will find that most of them are good citizens that want to help their home states. And in this case with Rudy Giuliani, just let him be. Its practice that nobody campaigns on 9/11 and if you do that is just tactless. So breaking out of character, I'm going to say listen and believe him when he says he will not discuss his political campaign.
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