While you (and most of your readers) and I don’t share the same theological views, I agree with you on this one. I contacted both Michigan senators asking for a big Nay vote on this.

Ordinary Radical

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8″

Not really. As anti-religious as I am, I recognize there are some who *do* walk the walk. That’s why I give all my old stuff to the local Salvation Army store.

Example: while The United Way was holding expensive PR press conferences after Hurricane Katrina, the Salvation Army folks had quietly gone into New Orleans before the rain stopped falling with mobile canteens and field kitchens. They have a military style organization (hence “Army”) that does seem effective in bad situations.

I may not agree with their views on many, well, MOST things, but I can really respect their charitable efforts. They actually have their own ham radio network for disaster relief coordination. I’d rather support that than some overpaid executives at an uber CorporaCharity that trickles 20 cents on a dollar to those that actually need it.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Linda

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that God is behind this amazing universe we live in. There’s some pretty smart scientists out there that believe it too. I’m in good company. Probably one of the latest to ‘come out’ is Francis Collins, head of the human genome project (http://www.ctlibrary.com/40487).

I do think that Christians are going about it the wrong way when they try to sneak a creationist agenda into the science classroom, so I pretty much agree with Phil on this one.

It’s unfortunate that Christians are known for what we’re against instead of what we are for. Christ summed it up when asked what the greatest commandment was:

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 29 – 31

Thanks to BigBadSis and Robert Wolford for showing us how to word our Emails so well!

Now, I’m off to warn everyone in my email address book. . .

Isn’t that a redundancy?

Here in Redneckistan (The American Southeast – used to be solidly Dem, but good PR coupled with bad luck – and some admittedly poor performing politicians – changed all that) calling our senators is an exercise in futility – unless you are a “Dittohead/Great American”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Family_Forum

And their actual site:

http://www.lafamilyforum.org/

I *totally* want to parody that site. It’s tough to parody things that are almost self parodies, so it’s a challenge.

Not that I’m opposed to that, being fairly libertarian on activities between consenting adults, but he’s Mr. Bible Thumper Hypocrite in addition to all this.

Ah, Wikipedia, is there anything you do not know?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vitter

$300 an hour? That’s cheaper then Nevada where it’s legal. I guess the black market really *does* float to the fair price of a product or service.

He supports Rudy Giuliani’s. Huh. Not what I would have expected.

Can we somehow breed a new generation of free market politicians WITHOUT the recessive religious gene?

Not a snowball’s chance…

Religious yahooery promulgated by the government is generally not viewed well at all in Canada… which is funny given that our Queen is head of the Church of England. In fact, the last bastion of state-sponsored religion (funding of Catholic schools) is coming slowly under fire and has been abolished in many provinces.

The attempt to table a bill with such a flagrantly religious provision would be political suicide as the Conservative party leader found out in the recent Ontario election.

I’m a lurker and have been reading the blog, and the forum before that, for years and I rarely intervene.

I sometime get the feeling that I’m watching a train wreck about to happen on this whole topic. And what worries me, will Canada follow in the US footsteps?