i've got my first flaming thread!! (Obvious vanity post!)

[politicat]

Maybe i'm not a threadkiller!!

(If you're curious, the link is: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2181055)

No need to respond to this one... it's just a vanity post!

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[mdmc]

1. interesting

My catholic priest refused to accept Cardinal Egan's ban on pro choice Eucharist receiving!

[politicat]

3. You've got a gorgeous child there.

Makes me want one of my own... for about three minutes. So I'll admire yours.

You know, thinking about it, my confessors growing up would have likely not been real pleased with the "heresy hounding" going on. I still think some of those Jesuits are what made me not-religious today. (Not that I dislike religion... it's the fan clubs I have problems with.)

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[mdmc]

5. My life is an empty shell

Thats not my kid; I didn't even take the pic. Sometimes I would lik a child of my own (again, for about three minutes, like you).

I'm a practicing Catholic, by the way.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Just for the record

I'm with you on this issue. I don't think it should be in a church. I am a Christian and I know a lot of people who would be VERY uncomfortable going into a church, if only to vote. It can be very intimidating.

[politicat]

4. Thanks. It's so nice to know that being non-religious doesn't put me

at 100% odds from the rest of America....

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[Joy Anne]

6. voting places

I voted in an Episcopal church when I lived in the Somerton area of Philadelphia. It didn't seem "religious" because the voting area was via a large room used as a nondenominational daycare center on weekdays. It was apparently the only large wheelchair-accessible space available in the area, and the access ramp was rather steep. I would have been offended by a more overtly religious church voting place and would probably complain in your situation. I once applied for LIHEAP at a Catholic church and found the atmosphere hostile.

I live in a small-towns-turned-into-suburbia area now, with plenty of volunteer fire company social halls for voting. There is one polling place in an upscale elementary school that upsets the school board. They say the precautions necessary to protect the children from potential harm from voters are onerous. This seems silly to me, but the world I grew up didn't terrorize us children by keeping us in a 24/7 cocoon.