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Posted on August 14 at 2:36 p.m.
This is what conservative thinking gets you...
Guess what? Subscribe to all this bible-beating crapola, all this "how it was is how it should be" or "back in MY day, sonny" mess that everyone hollers about and how it's so great, THIS is what you get.
Adults are no longer adults. We must give all people a bed-time and we're all supposed to say "Thank you Mother" for it.
Give over an INCH of your ability to think to anyone, and they'll take a MILE of your rights away.
And for the record, if you don't like what consenting, legal adults do in their free time at all hours of the night, then just don't do it with them. As far as I'm concerned regarding those four used condoms... sheesh.. at least they USED condoms.
Posted on August 11 at 7:32 p.m.
"Posted by humorme (anonymous) on August 11, 2008 at 10:49 a.m.
If a straight guy beats up a gay guy it's a hate crime. If a gay guy beats up another gay guy it's "domestic violence"."
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Perhaps you don't understand the definition of a domestic violence incident.
It's not a matter of just two guys beating the crap out of each other.
If man A attacks man B on the basis of man B being gay, yes.. that's a hate crime. It was a crime inspired by hatred.
If two people who live in the same domicile engage in violent behavior, thereby denying one or the both of them of the right to safety from terror or injury in their home.. THAT is domestic violence.
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"Posted by Swapmeet (anonymous) on August 11, 2008 at 1:04 p.m.
It's pretty simple. If you are a born-again believe in Christ Jesus, then you have to accept the fact that homosexuals will die and go to hell along with all the drinkers, drug addicts, smokers, dippers, cussers, and, yes, religious, moral people who have never submitted their lives to the Lordship of Jesus. If you don't believe in Jesus, then you think homosexuality is okay. It's pretty black and white."
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Okay. If that's what you believe will happen to everyone else, fine. What about the earthly term of these people who, at the end of life, will supposedly go to hell? You'd think, as a Christian, your life would be devoted to mercy, compassion, and other Christ-like behavior. One might think that just as a human being, that if you really believed that your unavoidable God was going to inflict such misery on people, you might at least show them compassion and some understanding while they were here on Earth, awaiting their inevitable punishment.
How convenient it must be to adhere to such elitist denominational dogma. To take some morbid comfort in the thought that everyone who isn't just like you is WRONG and will be PUNISHED. Then again, I think I'd rather not serve an entity who would summarily punish all other races and cultures of the Earth who have celebrated their own traditions and ways of life for years far exceeding those of Christianity, right along with all of those kinds of people you mentioned.
Posted on August 10 at 11:13 p.m.
by the way, everyone..
I'm rather impressed with the level of understanding for non-heterosexual people I've seen in the comments on this story.
Heck, I'm sitting here in utter amazement over it, to be honest.
So, I just figured that I would mention this. Until ALL people are allowed the same civil rights (marriage, freedom from discrimination over an inherently personal trait), this isn't going to get any better because there will be no solid foundation of security for LGBT people.
Don't forget things like this when you have the opportunity to vote. I'm not just referring to the Presidential Election, either.
Posted on August 10 at 11:08 p.m.
NatchezEnema .. you said..
"Human nature is a lot like mother nature, except for one thing. Same sex relationships. Next time you see 2 big fully mature silver back gorillas, or 2 male sperm whales, 2 male bengal tigers, 2 male lions frolicking togeather across the plains, or 2 grown male 12 point white tail bucks getting it on let me know or take a picture for the Democrat"
Well, here you go :)
Here are stories, some from smaller scientific publications.. others from nationally-recognized news sources.. all of these are about the phenomena of homosexuality and bisexuality in non-human animals.
Oh, and I threw one in from Wikipedia that was more of an overview.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuali...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.livescience.com/animals/06111...
http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/0...
I don't think we'd have such a huge problem with unwanted pregnancies, STD's, or even sexually-based criminal activities if all heterosexual people engaged in sexual behavior solely for the purpose of reproduction.
So, perhaps reproductive success is not the basis by which we should judge the validity of an emotional and physical attraction. Just MAYBE.. lol
Posted on August 10 at 2:07 a.m.
Why shouldn't they have gone here?
Gay and lesbian people EXIST. Acknowledging this doesn't make anyone gay who doesn't want to be. You can't summarily dismiss the rights, needs, and safety of people who are very real, just because you don't like them.
There are plenty of HETEROSEXUAL people that I don't like at all.. but it doesn't mean I would want them to be in a situation like the one described in this article, or that I wouldn't help them out of it any way that I could. I don't like being around people who do destructive things that could hurt themselves or others, but that doesn't mean that I want anyone to suffer or that I would prefer to live not knowing anything about them. What a shallow existence that would be... to ignore anything unlike myself.
I think an overabundance of religious instruction can do a massive amount of harm to people, if not especially because most people use religion to justify the control of others. Abusers very commonly use religion to demean and shame their victims into helplessness, if not especially children. Very often, churches work very hard to institute a "better than the others" sameness within their own group that can make that group very influential, if not outright dangerous. Churches can't even agree on what they actually believe in. If they did, we wouldn't have so many denominations, which are merely man-made constructs that people use to differentiate themselves from "those OTHER people".
Like it or not, religious viewpoints are not always "good" and can need to be readjusted. If we kept the same religious values that were held in the past, we'd have long-since stoned to death anyone who tried to interfere with the "Will of God" and came up with something important to the preservation of human life against disease.. like penicillin or vaccines. Think about that when your child needs an antibiotic, or you need to inject some insulin. Old religious teachings would have left you or your child for dead, because your death would have been at the discretion of the Creator. Any attempt to artificially affect life and death matters was considered witchcraft and an act against God. What about today? It's different now because we let go of those old ways.
To sit here, keeping your head in the sand (as though it makes you a better person to be ignorant of something), and to AVOID this topic entirely... well I'd say that would be downright UN-Christ-like. It's not like Jesus went out of his way to spend time with the "right" people of his time.
Posted on August 7 at 3:44 a.m.
I'm with natchez1's first comment on this..
$7000 in shoes and ONE television.. yet no central air.
I'd love to have a nice flat screen LCD myself, but I'm waiting out the prices and making do with the older model I have. It'll be like DVD players and computers were. Prices will drop quickly as the novelty wears off and they become more commonplace.
I just can't believe it.. 7k on shoes and a tv. That's close to half of my student loan debt.. lol
Posted on August 5 at 2:19 p.m.
You know.. closing bars early does NOT reduce alchol abuse. In fact, it's well-known that alcoholics often PREFER to drink at home, rather than out where people will see them or they might risk arrest for the out-of-control state that an alcholic usually reaches when they drink. Most people who prefer going out to bars, do so for the social experience - the alcohol is just a perk. Hardcore alcoholics are more interested in the booze than the music, people, or atmosphere.
There is NOTHING to do in this town, and what little there is to do, someone or other is always trying to shut it down. Before someone attempts to smother anyone else (least of all, me) in more self-righteous, sanctimonious crap about churchgoing and "nice" hobbies, get over yourself. Not everyone shares your interests, and just because you think you're in the right and that your lifestyle is great, it doesn't mean that anyone else is interested.
Adults of legal age have the right to go out and do anything they darn well please, restricted only by the law.. which is fairly restricted as it is. Close down the bars early and you remove a large social forum for people trying to have a good time. I'm curious.. is there a specific problem with a specific bar and local authorities just don't want to call them out individually? If so, why punish everyone else in the process?
I think it's a dumb idea. It's going to reduce income for people who work in those places, it's going to greatly reduce a social outlet for this area, and it's going to do NOTHING to reduce alcohol abuse, crime, or road accidents.
Posted on August 2 at 11:55 a.m.
I don't know whether she's black or white, or why it should matter at all. In all fairness, though, I've met fair few white "Rashonda"s in my day.
More family planning options around this area could probably help out a lot.. at least by reducing the amount of children being born to violent, self-absorbed idiots.
There ARE worse things than not being born.. such as, being born in to a mother who does permanent disabling injury to you or makes your few early years a misery until someone hits you hard enough to kill you. Even worse, should you live through that kind of childhood abuse, DHS is determined to keep you with the morons who are ruining any chance you have at growing up to be a healthy, sane, productive person.
Think about it.. this is a case of abuse which has been discovered because the woman at LEAST thought she'd better bring her child to the hospital. How many people don't even bother to get treatment for the ungodly things they do to their children? How many people are "smart" enough to avoid discovery by keeping their children at HOME with major head trauma?
But no.. every pregnancy is supposedly a wonderful thing.. including illegitimate, unwanted pregnancies to unfit mothers and fathers. Let's get some freakin' birth control out here, already.
Posted on July 22 at 9:51 p.m.
Gigilewi:
Please let both of those young ladies know that some of us out here DO care about what happened to them and that they should NOT limit their lives nor blame themselves somehow for what these idiots tried to do to them. Don't let them take the negative comments and backward thinking displayed here to heart. There's nothing wrong with them if they DID want to get a drink (or get a drink on) with their children safe at home, being two adult ladies who have every right to do exactly as they wish. It's not their fault someone that someone else tried to harm and coerce them.
Shame on all of the rest of you who've said such derogatory things about these ladies, and women in general. When it happens to you, for all your caution and hiding and preoccupation with what's "right" and "appropriate" to keep oneself out of harm's way, how are YOU going to feel when everyone condemns YOU for what someone else did to you?
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Posted on August 29 at 2:38 p.m.
During the aftermath of Katrina, a church in Natchez that I'd worked a year for went WAY above and beyond trying to shelter families. This church had about ten women members working non-stop who served a buffet style meal three times a day. They kept snacks around, installed cable, and rebuilt the entirety of their interior so that each family group could have some privacy and their own room to be in.
The majority of the people who stayed there treated those church members like hell. They complained about everything, urinated in places other than restrooms, brought weapons, fighting, illicit drugs (if you have NOTHING, how do you have drugs?) into the church, and outright refused to mind their own children during their stay. The evacuees were being driven basically anywhere they wanted to go, their kids were being taken out for movies and such. Phones and internet access had been provided for people, and it was abused, at great cost to the church. Items were broken or stolen, and the church went into a great deal of debt to try and help these people.
Now, not ALL of the evacuees did this, but out of the almost 200 people helped by this church, I can't remember more than about five or six who actually took advantage of the help and made a genuine effort to get themselves or families on better footing or in their own housing. Most of them only moved because FEMA said they had to go elsewhere or into housing programs or they weren't going to get their checks.
I'm with Lawrence08. Lock your doors and let the "stay behind to loot" stragglers evacuate right on PAST Natchez and let Arkansas deal with them.
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