Category Archives: Back in June, I wrote about the idea that the church should be the moral compass of America, and it should not abdicate that position to the government. However, between then and Election Day, I became increasingly alarmed at the incivility and the rumor mongering of the rank and file of the conservative Christian movement. This is the largely the responsibility of the leaders of this movement even if they weren’t specifically part of the rumors about Barack Obama’s religion and birthplace. The rank and file were simply trying to do whatever they could to defeat the people they were told would ruin the country.
Since the rise of the Christian Right starting with the Moral Majority in the 1970s through the domination of the Dobson-Robertson crowd of the 2000s, the conservative Christian movement has invested heavily in the Republican party. That investment has not just been a monetary one. It has also been an investment of its time and, more importantly, the majority of its votes. This has had numerous negative effects, with relatively few positives.
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Oh, Brad Pitt, you had me swooning when you announced that you were going to help people rebuild their homes in New Orleans and then went a step further and said you were going to make them Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified green homes. How can anyone be so gorgeous and so smart? God must have sent you down from heaven to save Mother Earth. Oh, wait! Let me snap out of it. 
hope, but Tuesday that faint hope disappeared as she lost in Montana. Though she did actually beat Sen. Barack Obama in South Dakota, it wasn’t enough. She was bleeding superdelegates by that point, and Sen. Obama had gained enough delegates with pledged and superdelegates to guarantee him the Democratic nomination for President. 
Okay, has anyone noticed the lovely new colors in our trees? I see leaves of blue, white, green, tan, even some with red Target circles. Unfortunately, these days we can see the leaves change color any time of the year. We just have to live next to some trees and someone who doesn’t pick up their trash. The evil plastic bags take flight and land in our trees. Does anyone else notice this? It’s like it’s not enough I have to look at cans on the side of the road, now I have to see plastic bags in the trees. They are like an urban and even rural tumbleweed…like a daily reminder for you to put your reusable shopping bags back in your car and bring them with you to any shopping you do. I was going to try to stay away from the crazy hippy information but, plastic shopping bags can last up to a thousand years in a landfill. Worldwide 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used every year.
Last night, while watching Grey’s Anatomy, I actually thought I would see something I haven’t personally seen on TV or in a movie for at least 10 years: an abortion.
Ok, so I’ve kept pretty quiet about the whole steroid issue 
in baseball because my opinion is pretty nuanced, and I didn’t want to give the impression that I approved of steroid use. But, this story provoked me to write, not because I have anything new or spectacular to say but because it appears that I could actually be seen somewhere on the periphery of this story, like if it were in a movie, I’d be in one of those high school scenes with kids seated at tables in a large cafeteria. Yes, Mindy McCready and I were at the same high school. 
For a long time now, I’ve thought that there needed to be a change in the tone of the debate over abortion. I don’t adhere blindly to the well-worn belief that “bipartisanship is good.” Healthy debate is good, and there are times when people are elected because of what they believe in. No, the reason I think the tone of the abortion debate needs to change is that we pro-lifers aren’t getting anywhere the way we’re going now.
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