To many people it legitimizes him in a more substantial way. It makes me sad, but I understand the concessions politicians think they have to make (even as I scream, but you already won!!). As a Christian it makes me doubly sad that so many who claim to share the same faith as me, are energized by discrimination and fear and hate. Which is not to say Warren does not do some really good stuff. Compared to some of the mega-church ministers he is vastly better in my eyes, but like many others, there are some issues that ARE a litmus test for me and he doesn't pass.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Dec 19, 2008 5:42:52 am PST #6966 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
amych - Dec 19, 2008 5:51:26 am PST #6967 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
All of what they said.
But it also distresses me rather a lot that we always have to have religious bits of government functions.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2008 5:52:28 am PST #6968 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Maybe he can balance it out by having PZ Meyers deliver the closing remarks. (What's the fancy-word opposite of invocation? Convocation? Exvocation?)
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2008 5:53:52 am PST #6969 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Outvocation?
amych - Dec 19, 2008 5:54:16 am PST #6970 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Revocation?
DebetEsse - Dec 19, 2008 5:55:41 am PST #6971 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Benediction? That's probably too churchy.
msbelle - Dec 19, 2008 5:56:02 am PST #6972 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
nope it is benediction.
Glamcookie - Dec 19, 2008 5:56:12 am PST #6973 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
t loves on the Buffistas
The Warren thing has my household in a pretty deep funk. I don't understand how Obama could have thought this would be a good thing, especially as he first takes office. It's not so much that Warren is against gay marriage (though that is a problem for me personally), he has compared gay marriage to incest, bestiality, and polygamy. Why not pop David Duke up there? What about all the racists in the country - he's their president, too! This is just a huge disappointment to me and makes me think there won't be much of that "change" he campaigned on.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2008 5:56:27 am PST #6974 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Unvocation.
SailAweigh - Dec 19, 2008 5:56:30 am PST #6975 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
we always have to have religious bits of government functions
Heck, yeah. That's the one thing I objected to about every major function I went to in the military (changes of command, graduation ceremonies), there always had to be an invocation. By a presumably non-denominational chaplain, but it wasn't like they ever invoked Allah, Buddha, Jehovah or any god other than "God". The only thing they do right is the oath of enlistment that gives the enlistee the option to swear or affirm his oath, for those who object to the swearing.