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Zorra's JournalBeneficial, on simple ethical grounds. When you start taking disingenuous actions
on critical ethics/rights issues for political expediency, you become a republican.
I'm proud of the current Democratic Party platform that stands up for equal rights for everyone, particularly women and my LGBT community right now. If my party did not almost always stand up for what is conducive to personal and collective freedom for the the overwhelming majority of citizens I would not be voting for Democrats.
Selling your soul to the devil never works out well, in either the short run or the long run. In the short run, you may gain something material, but you immediately lose all your integrity and self-respect.
And in the long run, you lose everything.
Interesting information concerning the relationship between the Mormon Religious Industrial Complex
and the Boy Scouts, racism, discrimination toward women, and the LGBT community, etc.
I can't vouch for the complete accuracy of every single bit the information posted below, but believe that for the most part, that the sources of information are credible and accurate. This is a very long post, and is meant as a starting point for anyone interested in further researching the facts about the LDS Religious Industrial Complex and Willard Romney's lifelong immersion in the doctrines and practices of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex.
Personally, in light of everything I have learned about the LDS Religious Industrial Complex over the past year, I am adamantly against having a currently practicing, lifelong member of this Conglomerate to be my President. This is not religious bigotry, it's just common sense. This authoritarian Conglomerate seeks complete control over the lives of individuals, and Mitt Romney has been a practicing member of this highly unusual Religious Industrial Complex since birth.
The impact of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex on the thinking, beliefs, and ethics of Mitt Romney cannot help but be all pervasive and overwhelming in his consciousness. I have little choice, as reasonable human being, and as responsible citizen, to consider this fact when making a decision as to the suitability of Willard Romney for the Office of President of the United States. The influence and control that the highly authoritarian Mormon Religious Industrial Complex has over its adherents is honestly extremely frightening to me as a person who places the highest value on individual and collective liberty and freedom, and the possibility of having a POTUS who cannot help but having been overwhelmingly inundated with the belief in the divine supremacy of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex, and its doctrines, is doubly frightening to me.
After serious consideration of his overall suitability for the office of Commander in Chief of United States, there's no fucking way I want Mitt Romney as my POTUS, and there many factors for why I do not want him for my POTUS.
And his lifelong membership in the LDS Religious Industrial Complex is one of the main factors for my strong belief that Willard Romney should never, ever reside in the White House.
First, some info about the holdings, business interests of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex.
It’s perhaps unsurprising that Mormonism, an indigenous American religion, would also adopt the country’s secular faith in money. What is remarkable is how varied the church’s business interests are and that so little is known about its financial interests. Although a former Mormon bishop is about to receive the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, and despite a recent public-relations campaign aimed at combating the perception that it is “secretive,” the LDS Church remains tight-lipped about its holdings. It offers little financial transparency even to its members, who are required to tithe 10 percent of their income to gain access to Mormon temples.
1.4 percent of the U.S. population, but the church’s holdings are vast. First among its for-profit enterprises is DMC, which reaps estimated annual revenue of $1.2 billion from six subsidiaries, according to the business information and analysis firm Hoover’s Company Records (DNB). Those subsidiaries run a newspaper, 11 radio stations, a TV station, a publishing and distribution company, a digital media company, a hospitality business, and an insurance business with assets worth $3.3 billion.
AgReserves, another for-profit Mormon umbrella company, together with other church-run agricultural affiliates, reportedly owns about 1 million acres in the continental U.S., on which the church has farms, hunting preserves, orchards, and ranches. These include the $1 billion, 290,000-acre Deseret Ranches in Florida, which, in addition to keeping 44,000 cows and 1,300 bulls, also has citrus, sod, and timber operations. Outside the U.S., AgReserves operates in Britain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Its Australian property, valued at $61 million in 1997, has estimated annual sales of $276 million, according to Dun & Bradstreet.
The LDS Church became formally affiliated with the Boy Scouts in 1913. According to figures on the Boy Scouts of America website, as of 2011, there were nearly 38,000 scouting units sponsored by the Latter Day Saints. That’s nearly 34 percent of all units nationwide.
And the LDS Church, which opposes “homosexual behavior,” holds sway with the Boy Scouts of America.
In a brief filed in the landmark case of Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a lawyer for the LDS Church warned that the church would leave the scouts if gays were allowed to be scout leaders.
"If the appointment of scout leaders cannot be limited to those who live and affirm the sexual standards of BSA and its religious sponsors, the Scouting Movement as now constituted will cease to exist, “ wrote Von G. Keetch on behalf of the LDS Church and several other religious organizations in 2000 (PDF). “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the largest single sponsor of Scouting units in the United States -- would withdraw from Scouting if it were compelled to accept openly homosexual Scout leaders.”
Mormonism has morphed the Boy Scouts into a religious organization in which they use to indoctrinate the young men into a lifetime of church membership. Awards and rewards are based on Mormon Priesthood rules and regulations. More emphasis is placed on indoctrination and obedience to the Mormon Gospel. Young men are accelerated through the program faster than boys outside the Mormon controlled BSA. Mormon boys can receive an Eagle Award simply by placing bags on neighbor doors to collect food for homeless shelters.
Women are not allowed to participate (except as "Den Mother"
- in fact, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints does not have a Girl Scouting program.
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Youth and Adult Volunteers: Boy Scouts of America believes that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God. Because of its views concerning the duty to God, Boy Scouts of America believes that an atheist or agnostic is not an appropriate role model of the Scout Oath and Law for adolescent boys. Because of Scouting’s methods and beliefs, Scouting does not accept atheists and agnostics as adult volunteer leaders.
The Mormon Curtain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies#Position_on_atheists_and_agnostics
The Boy Scouts of America's position is that atheists and agnostics cannot participate as Scouts (youth members) or Scouters (adult leaders) in its traditional Scouting programs. The Bylaws of the BSA contain a non-sectarian Declaration of Religious Principle. This was adopted in the first decade of the organization to assuage the Catholic Church that the work of the YMCA in getting Scouting established in this country did not mean that it was a Protestant proselytizing organization:
"The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God. In the first part of the Scout Oath or Promise the member declares, ‘On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law.’ The recognition of God as the ruling and leading power in the universe and the grateful acknowledgment of His favors and blessings are necessary to the best type of citizenship and are wholesome precepts in the education of the growing members."[2]
During the membership application process and as a requirement to obtain membership, youths and adults are required to subscribe to the precepts of the Declaration of Religious Principle and to agree to abide by the Scout Oath and Law, which include the words, "do my duty to God" and "reverent". Youths are also required to repeat the Scout Oath and Law periodically after being accepted as Scouts. The BSA believes that atheists and agnostics are not appropriate role models of the Scout Oath and Law for boys, and thus will not accept such adults as leaders.[2]
The BSA does not require adherence to any particular religious beliefs or ethos beyond this. The Boy Scout Handbook goes on to explain that "A Scout is Reverent" simply means that "A Scout is reverent towards God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the beliefs of others." Buddhists, followers of Native American religions, Muslims, Jews, Christians of all denominations, Wiccans, and many others, including those who define their own spirituality, can be and are members of the BSA. The BSA recognizes religious awards for over 38 faith groups including Baha'i, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Hinduism, and 28 varieties of Christianity.[13] Boy Scouts of America–approved religious emblems exist for all these except for Wicca and Native American religions. The former exists but has not been approved due to the fact that there are fewer than 25 chartered Wiccan units.
After writing negative articles about the Republican candidate, the managing editor of MormonThink.com says he faces excommunication. Is the Church on a witch hunt? Jamie Reno reports.
Mormonism has created an ingenious system of oppression, in which opposition towards men is tantamount to arguing with God. The Mormon religion makes no distinction between clergy and laity, at least with regard to men (Laake 9). All Mormon men are ordained as members of the "priesthood," with the absolute authority to preach the gospel, bestow blessings, prophecy, perform healings and baptisms, and generally speak for God. "Their priesthood gives them the right to advise and instruct the Saints (i.e., Mormons), and their jurisdiction extends over all things spiritual and temporal" (Snowden 134).
Romney has consistently avoided having his Mormon beliefs put under scrutiny. There are some good reasons for that.]
Hayes, the divorced, unmarried mother of a 3-year-old daughter, was struggling as a nurse’s aide in a working-class suburb of Boston. She had little in common with the successful Bain executive, but the request wasn’t as odd as it might seem. Hayes was a Mormon. Romney was her bishop. Romney walked into her small apartment, made small talk and then commanded her to give her baby up for adoption after it was born. He was her bishop, and as she knew, Mormonism disapproved of single motherhood. Hayes said no.
“Well, this is what the church wants you to do, and if you don’t then you could be excommunicated for failing to follow the leadership of the church,” Romney said, according to Hayes in an interview with Boston Globe journalists Michael Kranish and Scott Helman. Romney denied he made that threat, although he did not dispute the incident.
In a June 1978 letter, the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaimed that “all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color.” Men of African descent could now hold the priesthood, the power and authority exercised by all male members of the church in good standing. Such a statement was necessary, because until then, blacks were relegated to a very second-class status within the church.
The revelation may have lifted the ban, but it neither repudiated it nor apologized for it. “It doesn’t make a particle of difference,” proclaimed the Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie a few months later, “what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978.”
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It was Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, who adopted the policies that now haunt the church. He described black people as cursed with dark skin as punishment for Cain’s murder of his brother. “Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him cannot hold the priesthood,” he declared in 1852. Young deemed black-white intermarriage so sinful that he suggested that a man could atone for it only by having “his head cut off” and spilling “his blood upon the ground.” Other Mormon leaders convinced themselves that the pre-existent spirits of black people had sinned in heaven by supporting Lucifer in his rebellion against God.
The priesthood ban had sweeping ecclesiastical consequences for black Mormons. They could not participate in the sacred ordinances, like the endowment ceremony (which prepares one for the afterlife) and sealings (which formally bind a family together), rites that Smith and Young taught were necessary to obtain celestial glory.
Here is what I believe may be a relatively objective overview of some of the foundational ideology and subsequent practices of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex.
PBS: THE MORMON FAITH
Given all this disturbing information regarding the ideology and practices of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex within which Willard Romney has been completely immersed for his entire life, it appears to me that no reasonable American, republican or otherwise, could vote for Willard Romney without serious reservations over the distinct possibility of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex directly instructing Romney that it his duty to the Mormon Church, and to the god of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex, to act exclusively in the interests of the Mormon Church, and not in the interests of the American People.
Hulse bases his contention that the oath Mormons swear to the church holds precedence over those they take when assuming public office, in part, on a portion of scripture in "Doctrines and Covenants," one of the books of the Mormon canon. The passage declares that a member of the priesthood, typically males 12 and older, who breaks the "covenant" of the priesthood "and altogether turneth therefrom shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come."
LDS Church spokeswoman Kim Farah declined to respond directly to "When Salt Lake City Calls." Instead, she referenced the statement of political neutrality found on the church's Web site, www.lds.org, which begins, "The church's mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, not to elect politicians." The statement also says the church does not "attempt to direct or dictate to a government leader."
"While the Church may communicate its views to them, as it may to any other elected official," Farah said in an e-mail from her office in Salt Lake City, "it recognizes that these officials still must make their own choices based on their best judgment and with consideration of the constituencies whom they were elected to represent."
Asked if a Mormon politician could say no to an order from the church president, Farah said she could not answer a hypothetical question.
For these, and for so many other very valid reasons, we absolutely cannot take the very real risk of the LDS Religious Industrial Complex being in full control of the office of Commander-In-Chief of the United States.
Yeah, this is a common thing among republicans.
They don't question the things that their parents, teachers, priests, TVs, governments, etc, told them were true when they were growing up. And they often have a hard time understanding what it is like to be in another human being's shoes.
They go along, never thinking for themselves, and not caring about other people's unfortunate circumstances, or misfortunes, until some serious extreme personal tragedy puts them in a helpless position.
Then things change. They are the unfortunate ones who need help, and the only place they can find the help they need is from government programs, AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS WAS INSTITUTED BY DEMOCRATS, PROGRAMS WHOSE CONTINUED EXISTENCE HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY FOUGHT FOR BY DEMOCRATS, DESPITE CONSTANT OPPOSITION BY REPUBLICANS WHO WANT TO SEE THESE PROGRAMS ABOLISHED.
And yes, her story is very sad, and it helps explains how and why she finally came to understand how and why the Democratic party is the group of Americans who are responsible for providing the unconditional assistance she is receiving in her time of need.
Hopefully, other republicans will hear and understand her story, and will consider becoming Democrats and becoming part of our group that is full on dedicated to helping people with very real needs...before they themselves suffer some misfortune, and are forced to rely on the social programs that they voted to abolish over the course of their entire adult lives. If the republicans that Jan previously voted for had all been successful, she would be left to die by them, and the most they would give to her would (maybe) be their wishes that she die a quick and merciful death.
I'm sure everyone here is really glad that Jan is becoming a Democrat, and is sorry that she has suffered such great misfortune, and hope that things continue go better in her life from this point forward.
Isn't this who we Democrats are, and isn't this why we Democrats do what we do? To try to make life easier, and better, for everyone?
I know that this is a primary reason for me being a lifelong hard core progressive Democrat. And for the life of me, I can't understand how anyone could identify with, and belong to, that absolutely horrid group of mean, selfish, greedy individuals who comprise the membership of the GOP. I honestly think a person has to suffer from a serious anti-social personality disorder in order to self-identify as a republican, and identify with the GOP as a group.
Third Way type posters who are adamant supporters of the Military Industrial Complex/
Wall St. Establishment/Corporate Status Quo who claim to be progressives.
These posters are constantly trying to redefine progressive Democrats as some type of Democrat - Republican hybrid. They have a fairly consistent 4 main items on their posting agenda:
1) Trashing progressive individuals, progressive movements, and progressive events.
2) Supporting the Political and Corporate status quo.
3) Trying to shift DU, the Democratic party, and the US to the right.
4) Redefining the Third Way/Center as the Progressive Left.
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Progressive: A person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
Progressivism: Progressivism is a general political philosophy advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform.[1] Progressivism emerged as part of a more general response to the vast social changes brought by industrialization.
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Progressives: United States
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is often in opposition to the more centrist or conservative Democrats who form the Blue Dogs caucus, as well as near-continuous opposition to the Republican Party.
Progressive Democrats of America
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For over two decades, the party declined as its leadership listened more to the voices of corporations than those of Americans. PDA strives to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up-from every congressional district to statewide party structures to the corridors of power in Washington, where we work arm in arm with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In just a couple of years PDA and its allies have shaken up the political status-quo on issues from ending the Iraq war, voter rights, protecting Social Security, a full employment economy, national healthcare and economic justice.
PDA Issues
End Corporate Rule
Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections
Economic and Social Justice
End War and Occupation, Redirect Funding
Healthcare for All/Single Payer
Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues
PDA Candidates
Alan Grayson (FL-9)
Lesli Messinger (GA-1)
Dr. David Gill (IL-13)
Wayne Powell (VA-7)
Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Rob Zerban (WI-1)
Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ-3)
Rep. Donna Edwards (MD-4)
Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-3)
Rep. John Conyers (MI-13)
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-9)
Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-5)
More conservative bullshit.
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
Martin Luther King Jr
That sounds like Occupy to me. I spoke with Jesse Jackson at Occupy Phoenix, and had the honor of marching with him the following day. There were only 20 of us on the sidewalk that night, and it was about 9:30 at night when he and a few folks from COBTU walked up to us out of the blue, and talked to us about Occupy, and about the Civil Rights Movement.
I'm quite sure that he, as well as Dr. King, would be fully disgusted at the few anti-progressive, anti-Occupy, corporate establishment suck ups here at DU. I know most of the progressives here are.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a real progressive. And his two quotes above are exactly the type of progressive thought and action that you rail against here on DU, day after day. The movement goes first. The Civil Rights Movement was the Movement that brought about change for blacks and other minorities as well. The Occupy Movement is the movement that will bring about the change that leads to democratic subjugation of Wall St.
Progressive, defined: A person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
Progressivism, defined: The political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society.
Occupiers promote new, liberal ideas for implementing social reforms.
You, on the other hand, have been arguing incessantly for maintaining the system of the corporate establishment, for preserving the status quo, and for punishing those who challenge the corruption inherent within the status quo, which is a very conservative course of action...
con·serv·a·tive/kənˈsərvətiv/ - Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion.
I have a question: Your agenda, and the relentless of your anti-progressive propaganda, is very distinctive of Third Way propagandists. Do you work for, or are you affiliated with, the Third Way in any way? Other than just simply having the same ideology?
I'm an Occupier, and a lifetime progressive Democrat. And, sorry, you are not a progressive, no matter how you choose to define yourself. Your posts make this abundantly clear.
Occupy is partly responsible for the positive results for the Democratic party in the off year election in 2011, and by bringing attention to the problem of the 1%, Occupy will be partly responsible for getting Obama elected and other Dems elected. At least 50% of those who participated in Occupy will be voting Dem.
None will be voting republican. Why don't you reserve your vitriol for conservative organizations, like the Tea Party/GOP? It seems like all of your posts are anti-progressive, instead of anti-conservative. Go figure.
You are doing the Democratic Party a great disservice by constantly denigrating and pissing off progressives and liberals. Progressive Independents (and Democrats, for that matter) reading your conservative trash propaganda on this progressive website would definitely be turned off from voting for Democrats because of the sheer malice you obviously feel toward progressives/liberals.
It boggles the mind why any Democrat would want to break the power of unions.
The top 1% takes 43% of the pie while the bottom 90% gets only 36%
"Bwaaahaaahaaa! We told them the wealth would trickle down!"
Only the wealthy few have had income growth in the last 30 years
This next graph [5] shows rapidly increasing income growth for the top 1% in the past ten years. It also shows that for the entire bottom 60% there has been very little growth in per household income over the last 30 years, well under 1% annually.
Union membership: Declining steadily since Reagan.
Workers: Declining income equality since Reagan.
The wealthiest Americans: Markedly increased income since Reagan.
"Bwaaahaaahaaa! We told them the wealth would trickle down!"
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Well, that line of thought ~ that's a full array of stupid. And, sadly, you just can't fix stupid.
If moderate "Democrats" are not friendly to anyone striking when other people desperately need work, then they are so fracking stupid that they are not worth consideration. That line of non-reasoning shows them to be just as stupid and illogical as any conservative republican.
"Golly gee! Joe down the street is out of work, and teachers are striking in Chicago! Time to invade Iraq!"
Basing our actions on the foolishness of stupid people only adds to the stupid.
Here's are some examples of stupid moderate "Democrats" in action:
Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) reelection campaign is launching a push to highlight his support from Democrats throughout Massachusetts, an effort to burnish the freshman's centrist credentials to help him win voters in the deep-blue state.
Brown received the endorsement of Charlie Ryan, former Democratic mayor of Springfield, Mass., on Thursday, and on Friday Democratic state Rep. Chris Fallon appeared alongside Brown to become the first sitting lawmaker to offer his endorsement.
Fallon characterized the endorsement as an issue of character, rather than partisan politics, and called it an "easy" choice.
"We know where your heart is....."
Yes. We know where your heart is.
Chuckles the sensible centrist woodchuck says:
"Given a choice between a republican anti-union candidate and a progressive pro union Democratic candidate, I'll
vote for the republican every time!"
It would be a really good thing if everyone killed their televisions. Seriously.
"HOW CAN 59,054,087 PEOPLE BE SO STUPID?!?"The answer to this question is very simple: TELEVISION
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
~ Michael Parenti
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
~ Allen Ginsburg
"“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
~ Jim Morrison
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
~ Frank Zappa
"There's someone in my head, but it's not me"
~ Roger Waters
“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.”
~ Radiohead
“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”
~ Bill Watterson
“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
~ Jess C. Scott,
"Television is the opium of the masses"
~ Everyone familiar with Marx who does not watch television
Really, try not watching television for 1 year.
Dolan took a swipe at the LGBT community and marriage equality in his prayer at the DNC.
"Show us anew that happiness is found only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature’s God. Empower us with your grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the moral law with idols of our own making, or to remake those institutions you have given us for the nurturing of life and community.In light of recent circumstances, it's very clear what he was referring to, and what he implied.
What institutions would those be? Wouldn't be marriage and families, would it?
This hateful RW bigot should never have been allowed to set foot in our Democratic Convention.
He was given a bully pulpit and license to spew hate speech at the LGBT community. What is truly disgusting is that the devious little devil made a lame, shameful attempt to disguise his bigotry and hate in a prayer. Pretty low.
We are the people supporting Democrats and voting for them. Dolan is not, and his phony "prayer" stands out as the only dark shadow in our Convention that was so filled with light and hope.
It would be completely appropriate for every person responsible for Dolan's unwarranted presence at the Democratic Convention to publicly apologize to the LGBT community for allowing him to demean us at our Democratic Convention.
Do y'all really have any idea how devastating it is for LGBT Democrats to see Cardinal Dolan
so honored by the Democratic Party, in allowing him to say the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention?
Plainly speaking, Cardinal Dolan is a bigot, and a sexist. He is a homophobe, and an anti-choice misogynist. No amount of duplicitous doublespeak can ever obscure these facts made crystal clear by his own words.
He opposes equality for LGBT persons, equality for women, and is anti-choice.
He would be banned from DU in a split second if he were to post his previously stated homophobic and misogynistic opinions here. MIRT would run him out of here on a rail faster than you could say freeper, and the overwhelming majority of DUers would be celebrating and rejoicing over this just action by MIRT.
And it is not "just a prayer", like some are so insensitively and thoughtlessly proclaiming.
Honoring this outspoken anti-LGBT bigot (and anti-choice sexist) at the DNC is an implicit validation of the idea that there is no bigotry in opposing equal human rights for LGBT persons.
Personally, I am feeling seriously insulted, betrayed, and hurt beyond words, and I'm quite sure the majority of my Democratic LGBT sisters and brothers are as well. I have voted for every Democrat on my ballot in every election since I became of age to be able to legally vote. There have been more than a few issues that I have not agreed with my Dem legislators on, but when it came down to my support and vote, my loyalty to them, and the Democratic party has been unswerving, despite my disagreements.
I am writing this from my heart, and have tears in my eyes as I write it. I sincerely want everyone to have equal rights. It would never, in a trillion years, even cross my mind to advocate for Catholics, or members of any other religious group, to be legally denied equal human rights for no logical reason whatsoever. And truth be told, the astounding number of vicious, brutal atrocities committed against human beings by the Catholic Church and other religious groups would be a much more logical reason to deny someone their equal rights, than denying equal rights to LGBT persons simply because of who we are and who we love.
We, really, really don't deserve to be disrespected and insulted like this. The LGBT community has been overwhelmingly supportive of the Democratic Party for many years.
If Cardinal Dolan speaks out, directly, or indirectly, against equal rights for LGBT persons as he closes the Democratic National Convention, do you have any idea how our LGBT community, and even most of y'all, would feel at that moment?
*sigh*
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