Kelly Sullivan
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Single
Highschool
Riverdale High School
College
MTSU, until I transfer the heck out.
Interests
Renaissance faires, acting, dancing, drawing, writing, reading, poetry, stage combat, rapiers, archery, coffee and conversation, crème brûlée, France, travelling, Shakespeare, the supernatural, music, laughing, politics
Favorite Music
Classical and indie.
Political Rants, Ravings, and Other Disgusted Musings
June 21 2005
All quotes taken from an MSNBC article written by Alex Johnson of Nashville, Tennessee.
"Reviving a major plank of his re-election campaign, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday."
Please. Does this really constitute an amendment to the mother-loving Constitution of the United States of America?! I was labouring under the delusion that this was a country founded upon the basis of freedom, which includes the freedom to marry whomever you damn well please.
Besides, it's not like HE'S ever going to have one, so why bother preventing other people from marrying people with similar sex chromosomes?? Doesn't really affect him, so why is HE getting all up in arms about it? Or anyone ELSE, for that matter?!
Some more of his latest acts of idiocy:
"In a nod to polling data that suggest Americans strongly support embryonic stem cell research, Bush sought to focus the debate on theoretical pitfalls should such science be perfected."
Mayyyybe it's just me, but the experiments have to have f-u-n-d-i-n-g in order to merely take place if they're ever gonna be perfected.
If you've got a problem with stem cell research, consider how you would feel if it might be the one treatment/practise/experiment that could save both your grandfather and his mind. Then watch your commander-in-chief shoot it down year after year. That's all I care to say on the matter. I'm not even going to employ science on this one.
"He thanked the 11,077 'messengers' who made the trek to Nashville this year for defending 'the values that carry a moral society....'"
Okay, this is relatively minor, I suppose, but if applied across the board could translate into a very frightening outcome. He's applying morals as defined by one religion's mythology. This just in: Not everybody practises said religion. Not everybody buys into the morals as set forth in his particular holy book. Not everybody agrees with practises espoused by holy book. Some think holy book is so diluted as to be practically worthless. To use one's religion to govern betrays all those with differing religious views and violates the whole separation of church and state, particularly if the church becomes the state. [Note: Not a stab at Christianity. This is very important for my continued survival.]
Even his own party members are challenging such acts in Congress. That's gotta say something.
I'm pissed off. I need chocolate. Flame me and prepare for a scathing return volley. You have been warned.
"Reviving a major plank of his re-election campaign, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday."
Please. Does this really constitute an amendment to the mother-loving Constitution of the United States of America?! I was labouring under the delusion that this was a country founded upon the basis of freedom, which includes the freedom to marry whomever you damn well please.
Besides, it's not like HE'S ever going to have one, so why bother preventing other people from marrying people with similar sex chromosomes?? Doesn't really affect him, so why is HE getting all up in arms about it? Or anyone ELSE, for that matter?!
Some more of his latest acts of idiocy:
"In a nod to polling data that suggest Americans strongly support embryonic stem cell research, Bush sought to focus the debate on theoretical pitfalls should such science be perfected."
Mayyyybe it's just me, but the experiments have to have f-u-n-d-i-n-g in order to merely take place if they're ever gonna be perfected.
If you've got a problem with stem cell research, consider how you would feel if it might be the one treatment/practise/experiment that could save both your grandfather and his mind. Then watch your commander-in-chief shoot it down year after year. That's all I care to say on the matter. I'm not even going to employ science on this one.
"He thanked the 11,077 'messengers' who made the trek to Nashville this year for defending 'the values that carry a moral society....'"
Okay, this is relatively minor, I suppose, but if applied across the board could translate into a very frightening outcome. He's applying morals as defined by one religion's mythology. This just in: Not everybody practises said religion. Not everybody buys into the morals as set forth in his particular holy book. Not everybody agrees with practises espoused by holy book. Some think holy book is so diluted as to be practically worthless. To use one's religion to govern betrays all those with differing religious views and violates the whole separation of church and state, particularly if the church becomes the state. [Note: Not a stab at Christianity. This is very important for my continued survival.]
Even his own party members are challenging such acts in Congress. That's gotta say something.
I'm pissed off. I need chocolate. Flame me and prepare for a scathing return volley. You have been warned.
Sam-Graham Jinn (Graham Wells)
June 21 2005
The first issue I have a somewhat odd standpoint on. I strongly think that homosexuality is wrong. I'll say that flat out. But I also strongly think that our country, being what it is, cannot TRULY ban such marriages without ceasing to be what it is. An Amendment I'm not so sure, cos that makesit Constitution. But a law . . . no. Stem cells, no opinion as of now. >>>>>>
I do feel that I have to call shannanigans on your final statement in the paragraph about the "messengers," though. There is honestly little else that COULD be aside from a jab at Christianity. And you're right, not everyone agrees. That is true, and that's why I dont just blindly trash other religions, though I will admit to thinking them wrong. But whether they agree or not, it is in the beliefs put forth that they are wrong. And though an extremely public figure, a president is still a person with their own beliefs, and saying that they cant state as much while in their office is moronic and the exact type of religious censorship that your very comments spoke out against. I dunno. I'm tired. Ttyl. >>>>>>
No anger :-)
Kelly Sullivan
June 21 2005
I just don't think he should govern based on religion. George H. W. has every right in the world to have his beliefs, but I would prefer he use cold logic as opposed to personal religious viewpoints when it comes to making decisions concerning the nation. ....Why couldn't I have phrased it this way in the post?!! Lol!
Sam-Graham Jinn (Graham Wells)
June 21 2005
The problem still is that in the Christian lifestyle, it IS supposed to be part of our lives. Not just a religious experience that we participate in for certain days or events. That would in fact make the two (the job and the beliefs) inseparable from eachother.
Brett Tenpenny
June 21 2005
You post really long entries... but its ok.
I think that the political figures of our nation use thier religion to make thier decisons because, think about it, it causes no harm to anyone and it stands for everything that is right... dont kill, dont steal, dont practice adultry, obey the laws of the land, you know, things like that. And I know that not everyone practices the same religion, but christianity in general has the same ideals about pretty much everything except religious practices, such as, babtism, tradition in the church, communion, and other things of the sort, and Washington isent basing its decisions off of that. And by the way, dont get me wrong, I'm not standing up for bush, I can hardly stand him, but I can see where he bases his decisions off of christian ideals.
Rock on! Brett
