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OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there are 2 problems with your essay.

#1 is hillary isnt that bad....read larry's essay on her....she IS smart and i believe she is heads above any candidate on brains...i like edwards and i like obama better....hell i like richardson, biden and dodd....throw in kucinich too....they are all way better than any republican....every president has to bend over for the guys with the gold....thats the golden rule.....but at least with hillary we would get someone with brain cells and backbone.....ill take that over any republican at this point.....i mean seriously....she isnt bob casey.

#2 is hucklberry isnt a real christian....he is a pseudo christian...he hates...his beliefs are misogynistic and homophobic.....neither of these are true christian attributes....i have frequently defended many of your points about being a church going christian democrat with personal beliefs that are a little to the right of normal democratic platform stances like abortion etc....however i will never defend anyone who would vote for someone who will legislate their right wing intolerant narrow minded pseudo christian hateful religious sounding doctrine above what i believe are fundamental human rights that should be american citizen rights....women's rights to determine what happens to their bodies and completely equal rights for gay persons.....you can personally believe abortion is murder...as long as you keep it to yourself and dont try pushing that on other women who dont believe that or who, like me, believe murder is not always wrong (abortion, assisted suicide, death penalty for child molesters and rapists etc.).....you can personally believe gays shouldnt adopt children and    gay sex is against your bible beliefs....so dont have sex with men....dont pick them up in airport bathrooms for blowjobs....but dont vote for people who will legislate that kind of morality....ever...it wont help the progressive movement....it will hurt people in real ways....this is important.....oscar....think this through....putting people in power who will make laws that truly hurt people in fundamental physical spiritual emotional familial ways is not progress and its not what jesus would have wanted...the people can lead on these issues...they really can.....the people of this country wanted to go to war.....they can stop war and bring troops home if they would get off their butts and stop watching desperate housewives....if they would wake up out of their stupor....we need people like you who are not in a stupor to help make sure we dont go backwards.....be real oscar.....hillary in no way is even close to being as bad as huckleberry.

black church going folks have to stop the hating .....stop hating gay folks....stop falling for the bullshit twisted bible spew that false prophets are pushing.

Edible panties taste like crap.

by anna in philly (jrsygir1@aol.com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 01:09:49 PM EST
Hey Anna!  Good to see you again.  To your points:

#1 is hillary isnt that bad

Yes, she is.  I'd already read Larry's piece on her but I've been watching her since she first announced her intent to run for the Senate in 2000, and she has tracked further and further to the corporate right every year, culminating (for me) with her hawking the Iraq war in 2002-3.  She either lacks judgment, courage or integrity, and I don't seriously doubt her judgment or courage.  She's simply not on my side, and that's cool, but I simply won't support her, and I have been surprised to find that I am not alone on that score.

At what point do you believe Hillary will be an improvement over George Bush? Her differences with Bush have been in matters of degrees, not in substance.  She apparently figured that was the politically-pragmatic position, much like John F'ing Kerry on Iraq, and I see her in much the same light as Kerry.  The biggest difference is that Kerry lacked the courage to make substantive changes, Hillary seems to lack the will - her constituency does not demand dramatic change, just a little tinkering around the edges, because every-day people are not the constituency of the DLC, and we never have been.

#2 is hucklberry isnt a real christian....he is a pseudo christian...he hates

One of the biggest mistakes that anyone can make is to actually believe your own caricatures of those who disagree with you.  It is useful in shaping public opinion to characterize one's opponents as irrational, emotionally unstable individuals who are prejudiced against a specific people-group for no rational reason, but one actually believes that characterization at one's own peril.

You say that you "will never defend anyone who would vote for someone who will legislate their right wing intolerant narrow minded pseudo christian hateful religious sounding doctrine above what i believe are fundamental human rights that should be american citizen rights" - and that is your right, of course - as is it the right of others to "never defend anyone who would vote for someone who will legislate their left wing intolerant narrow minded pseudo christian hateful religious sounding doctrine above what i believe are fundamental human rights that should be american citizen rights" - namely, the 1st Amendment.

Specifically, the basis of one's political positions is irrelevant - if someone believes that the Iraq War is wrong because of utilitarianism, the Bible, the flight velocity of migratory swallows (African, not European), or Ms. Cleo, it matters not - all that matters is if they can convince a majority of their peers to vote with them on that issue.  Regardless of the basis of one's support or opposition to homosexuality and its acceptance by society, all that matters is if you can convince a majority of your peers to support your particular position - there are no invalid bases for one's position if we truly have a freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and to petition the government.  The separation of church and state simply keeps the state from establishing an official church or mandating a specific religion as the national religion - as Thomas Jefferson himself pointed out - it is not the separation of religious thought and legislation. Saying that someone can believe something but they can not act on that belief is essentially saying that they can not, in fact, believe something that you do not agree with or approve of - much like George Bush's "Free Speech Zones" - and that, too, is quintessentially un-American.

black church going folks have to stop the hating

Again, the emotion that you ascribe to me and mine simply does not exist - it's not hatred, it's opposition to the validation of an activity and lifestyle that we understand to be immoral.  You may disagree, and that is fine, but one of the points that I've made here is that if submission to your opinion becomes a litmus test for remaining within the ranks of the Democratic Party then we will, indeed, walk.  As for me, I've laid out in detail how I balance all of this (homosexuality, abortion, et al.) in a post, Why I'm Not A Republican last year.

Obviously, if I'm no longer welcome in the Democratic Party then that will change...

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 07:33:17 PM EST
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oscar...im only gonna respond to one part of your post and use my personal experiences to do it.

i say its hating...you say its opposition to an activity.

have you ever been in a room full of black clergy and black christians....your neighbors of the last few years....who suspect...they dont even know for sure, they just suspect, that you might be gay?

i have been.....and im not gay....but im a gay rights activist....and i have been in that room and seen, heard and felt the pure HATRED directed towards me....i have felt just as threatened as when i was in a wendys in cummings georgia in jan 1987 with klan guys that had shotguns under their robes and showed them to me and told me to get out of their town fast.....and im not black but i was there for a protest....i have felt that hatred in only a very few times in my life....you as a black man must be able to relate to this.....feeling threatened like that....feeling the hate.....its not just opposition to an activity.....men buttfucking each other.....its not just being opposed to that activity....its pure hatred....its knowing if they could get away with it, they would beat you to death, burn you out of the neighborhood....but they will settle for making laws that keep you from participating in society the way everyone else does.....they will settle for protesting your lifestyle and presence (their constitutional right) ....but you know if they could....they would do more.

i repeat.....black church going folks have got to stop the hating.

so does everyone else for that matter.

and oscar....where are you gonna go?

Edible panties taste like crap.

by anna in philly (jrsygir1@aol.com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 08:38:29 PM EST
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I'm sure that there are those who hate - you can find a sample of such people in any demographic (ask Black gays about the racism within that community) - but that is not the reason for most Christians' opposition to homosexuality.

I can certainly relate, and it is much like how I've had to remind some of my right-wing friends that all of the Islamic world does not hate America and intend us harm, but I have learned that those who need to see hatred will always see hatred, no matter how rationally I try to show them otherwise...

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 08:59:47 PM EST
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