Kevin_Wayne

At this point, should I make the suggestion that we may need to question Feminism en toto? Yes, I think I am going to:

http://youtu.be/FFtGwBsKgKs

http://youtu.be/5pPGijYBaVE

http://youtu.be/oMzcMATRGmE

http://youtu.be/wkVWz0uXiEA

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/

"And again I ask, as I asked on a previous thread, why can't women be the ones to guide and dominate this discussion? It is about us, not about men."

Because in forcing Churches or Insurance Companies to comply, you are conscripting men into service for things which many of them may not agree with.

"If Catholic-affiliated employers were to be held exempt, why couldn't any employer who claimed birth control, blood transfusions, or any other type of health care claim that it went 'against their conscience' and shouldn't have to pay for a health insurance plan that covered these things?"

Good question. Why should anyone be forced to provide funding for anything, if it goes against their conscience?

"Obviously you are not a feminist."

FIFY.

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Very cool. Have you seen the list titled "Bush, Obama - Same Old Drama?" It can be found here:

http://www.stpeteforpeace.org/obama.html

Yeah, It's called going to church for most of my life. Getting quizzical smiles at my insistence that the Gospel applies to social issues from fellow churchgoers. Hearing the story of Jesus asking the man in the pool "Do you want to be healed?" as analogous to modern criticisms of welfare recipients - and hearing that from the Pulpit, no less. Encountering attitudes that dealing with the enviroment or poverty are not important because "Jesus is coming back." Being rebuked for supporting Ralph Nader. Being thrown out of someone's house for grabbing  a Bible off their shelf to counter thier wrongness with a verse of scripture.

Do you want me to go on, or is that enough anecdotes for you?

PS: Multiply that thousands of times for the experience of others in Christian circles accorss the country over the last 30+ years. You'll get the picture. At least I hope so.

This is a good breakdown of history as the US has expereinced it and how it's efected certain people. Especially enlightening is the part about when the Homestead Act came into place, and points to why landowners are in many cases White. But it doesn't demonstrate IMHO what are the so-called "Structural" problems that exist in post Jim Crow America. There is every reason to believe that the playing field has been leveled enough to make it so that anyone can participate at any level of the Economy today by applying a little elbow grease and a little bootstraps. Harper needs to go much further to make that point, but she doesn't even begin. Hiring preferences and affirmative action may have been needed for awhile, but they are not anymore AFAICS. Also, what about the fact that such preferential treatment has caused resentment and racial DIS-harmony since the Mid 1960's?

"After that, I would get a smattering of Paul’s readiness to bring our troops home. He was against both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning and doesn’t seem to have blinked since. He’s so far right on military intervention that he’s left of President Obama."

What a laugh. Obama is a Neocon, plain & simple. He has continued the same military aggressiveness in Afghanistan, Libya, and the same sabre-rattling against Iran. The Patriot act remains in full force, still have wiretapping, Gitmo is still not closed. Don't look now but the Military base in Iraq known as the American Embassy In Bagdad is still in existence and there are people called up to go over there within a year. We haven't really left, don't be fooled.

Ron Paul doesn't just want to “bring the troops home,” he wants to cut the bloated and wasteful military budget and close down all military bases worldwide. He wants to end the war on drugs and conscription into military service (draft.) He wants to cut spending, which if you have a “smattering” of understanding, you'd know why we need to get Government Waste under control, regardless of what Social Programs you want to spend money on – or there won't be any money for anything! Medicare is fraught with fraud and overspending and Ron Paul does at least understand that this need to be brought to heel so we can help those we've been helping.

Jesus did use the Gk. Porneia, which refers to a multitde of sexual sins, one of which was homosexuality. He also referred to the destruction of Sodom as a literal event, which Jude 1:7 tells us was for varying perversions.