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Sep. 2nd, 2005 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockvia Newshounds:
Sean Hannity asked Franklin Graham tonight why "on the one hand" some people have risked their lives to help the hurricane victims while "on the other side, we have looting, shooting, rape and mayhem."
Graham answered, "Of course, Sean, this happens in a country when we have taken God out of our schools and God out of our society. We don't have a moral standard and we need to put God back into our schools."
Best comment response ever:
Sarcastro-
As a vertebrate, I'm embarrassed by remarks like that.
And still more:
From WorldNetDaily: There's looting in New Orleans because liberals took the Ten Commandments out of school.
Also from WND: the hurricane struck to prevent homos from having a party.
via Pandagon
Also worth checking out:
"Hurricanes, Divine Retribution and the Right."
Sean Hannity asked Franklin Graham tonight why "on the one hand" some people have risked their lives to help the hurricane victims while "on the other side, we have looting, shooting, rape and mayhem."
Graham answered, "Of course, Sean, this happens in a country when we have taken God out of our schools and God out of our society. We don't have a moral standard and we need to put God back into our schools."
Best comment response ever:
Sarcastro-
As a vertebrate, I'm embarrassed by remarks like that.
And still more:
From WorldNetDaily: There's looting in New Orleans because liberals took the Ten Commandments out of school.
Also from WND: the hurricane struck to prevent homos from having a party.
via Pandagon
Also worth checking out:
"Hurricanes, Divine Retribution and the Right."
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Date: 2005-09-02 06:55 pm (UTC)Right now, partisanship and politics are horridly entwined. Now, it's not as bad as it has been in US history--there haven't been duels on the floor of Congress and we're not in a Civil War--but there are people who are saying "We shouldn't help these people because they didn't vote the way *I* wanted them to". That's not politics. That's ignorant.
And yes--people who say this is because prayer was taken out of school are dumbasses.
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Date: 2005-09-02 07:06 pm (UTC)Although some wicked little part of me wonders if we did have duels on the floor of Congress, might not our government run a bit more smoothly? :) And I am reminded of Zell Miller challenging some t.v. talking head to a duel during the run up to election 2004..
At any rate, yeah, politics has become some sort of bizarre spectator sport where everyone is on a team and must support that team regardless of what stupid, assinine things they do. It's absurd that it's come to this, not surprising necessarily, but deeply, deeply sad.