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There are two words, I think, that should be ever present on the minds of people who dare to call themselves reasonable human beings. The first – EVIDENCE – is quite obvious when one puts any amount of thought into what is occurring in the world at large. Right now, we have a Special Counsel investigation, which relies on evidence, handing down indictments related to Russian meddling during the Great Farce of 2016. And, of course, we now have an addition to the English lexicon - Fake News - that screams volumes about the present need for accurate information in regard to world events. And, to generalize a bit, when we’re trying to fix a leaky faucet, we don’t just bang on it with a hammer. And we don’t do that because there are many, many professionals in the plumbing world who have reams and reams of evidence that inform as to the impossibility of a hammer being an effective tool where leaky faucets are concerned.
Where it pertains to Secularists, though, evidence is a core principle of a mantra we all speak every time we’re confronted with a truth claim about some supernatural notion or idea. Just recently, I was confronted with a not-so-unusual ‘Praise the Lord’ while out stumping for the Secular community at the July Farmer’s Market meet-n-greet put on by Iowa Atheists. Of course, my smart ass response was ‘Which one?’ And before the self-righteous SOB could get a word in edge-wise, I started rattling off a list of mythical deities from all over the world, at which point I’m told the man in question grew a seriously perplexed look on his face before walking off. His failure of reasoning, of course, is that he can’t see past the fallacy that his god is the only god that has ever been and ever will be. There are thousands of gods that have been conjured by the human mind over the hundreds of thousands of years of our existence, and there will likely be many more conjured before we evolve beyond such childish supernatural notions. It’s human nature, after all, to devise simplistic solutions for seemingly unsolvable questions.
Of course, I could have just as easily said “There is no god” and gotten myself wrapped up in yet another bullshit debate about how I can’t possibly be right because he, the christian, can’t possibly be wrong, which is basically what any debate with any religionist on the existence of Jehovah essentially amounts to in the end. Of course, for me to claim there is no Jehovah is no more remarkable than my saying there is no Hanuman, no Shiva, no Ares, no Camulus, no Amaterasu or no Quetzalcoatl. And most evangelicals would agree with these claims on every god but Jehovah without needing qualifying evidence to absolutely prove the claims. Therefore, any demand that I ‘prove’ there is no Jehovah is plain laughable given that it’s not a claim about the existence of a particular god, but rather a commentary on the improbability of there being any gods given the sheer volume of supernatural entities that have existed in the human sphere. No, even if I make such a statement, the burden of proof is still on the god-lover because he is the one making the remarkable claim.
The second word I of which speak – DIGNITY – is very important. In fact, I would reason it is significantly more important than the word ‘rights’ at present. And I say this because there seem to be a multitude of unsophisticated people in the world today screaming and hollering about how they have the right to do or say this, that or the other thing, usually out of some jaded self-interest. Very rarely do we hear these people making claims about the responsibilities they have to their fellow humans. Now, when the Founding Fathers first drafted the document that came to be known as the bill of rights, their intention was not so that some racist, Q-Ball-headed moron could call an innocent black person a nigger with impunity. No, their intention was to correct deficiencies in prior forms of government by emboldening the masses against tyranny. Free speech was devised as an ideal to prevent retribution against those of us, for whom there is no possibility of buying a two-million dollar diamond-encrusted cell phone cover, for speaking out against corruption and abuse of power.
Yes, these things – free speech, free expression, free press, free assembly, free religion – were all devised to empower the masses against the abuse of the wealthy and influential. Sadly, the ‘masses’ initially only meant white landowners but that’s a minor point of contention because the system was designed in such a way to allow for the same redress of grievances by the masses toward the federal government that the colonies handed to the Crown less than two decades prior to the ratification of the Constitution. And, as I am a ‘spirit of the law’ type rather than a ‘rule of law’ absolutist, I’m inclined to make my assessments of current human behavior in relation to these rules by judging them against the spirit in which the rules were devised, as opposed to that which they became over years and years of legal declaration and clarification. I find this the more reasonable way to think given that the system as first put into practice was hardly fair where it concerned women, natives, non-whites and poor people.
That aside, there was at least a recognition on the part of the architects of the Constitution that the dignity of the common man needed affirmation on a level rarely seen before in human history. As we’ve seen in the present, though, few people seem to understand the need to maintain this ideal and simply take it for granted that their ‘rights’ are secure and that there is very little they need to do to uphold the system that guarantees those rights, or, for that matter, that there is very little they need to give back in order to be worthy of the dignity that is conferred by the persistence of said rights. We are a nation that has very little in common with itself apart from the the structures of the government we employ to administrate our infrastructure. We have no common ethnic identity nor a single political philosophy. And we certainly have no common religion to unite us despite the nauseating evangelical mantra that insists these United States are, in fact, a christian nation. Therefore, if we’re to be worthy of the dignity conferred by the Constitution we take for granted day in and day out, then we’d better start setting a better example for the world to see.
We start by affirming our shared humanity, by recognizing that we all have the same potential to make an impact on the reality of human life regardless of any negligible differences that may arise, whether they be skin color or genetic variance or gender identity or even what brand of toothpaste we use. We are all humans first and if the United States, and indeed Western Civilization, were to disappear tomorrow, we would all...still...be...human. So clearly that must be our first priority before we decide to confer respect to notions of national identity or religious identity or racial identity or consumer identity or whatever else there may be in that regard. We are humans first and not one of us is beneath dignity so long as we prove ourselves worthy of it.
Now, that’s not to say that anyone who takes our shared humanity for granted is automatically beneath dignity. No, one is only beneath dignity if they intentionally use their place and position in society to deny dignity to other human beings, as when alt-right racist shit-stains kill reasonable people with cars, or when a useless incel fuckstick calls a woman a cunt for no cause other than she refuses to touch his minuscule micro-penis. There can be no dignity for those who consciously refuse to recognize and affirm the dignity of their fellow human beings. This is why I have no sympathy for current political figures who get denied service at restaurants, or tired hacks from TV’s yesteryear who lose their shows because of racist social media posts, or misogynist conservatives who get booted off of the airwaves because they treat women as property or disposable sex object. I have no problem sticking it to people who have no respect for the dignity of others and I think shame and ridicule are appropriate responses to these kinds of narrow-minded, poisonous cancers to society.
Some will say, quite predictably that such a stern response is not the proper way to answer ignorance but I have to call bullshit on that. ‘Live and let live’ only works if everyone agrees to live and let live. We’re at a stage now where the unreasonable insist we respect their unreasonable ways because of the protections afforded to them in the Constitution; where basic facts about the world on which we live have to be renegotiated ad nauseum because it’s now somehow reasonable to have doubt in the face of irrefutable evidence; where the very right to tear society apart down to it’s very foundations is irrevocable simply because some asshole claims the freedom to do so. It will take more than ‘let us all make nice’ platitudes to counter this level of arrogance and ignorant thinking.
The bible says that the meek shall inherit the earth but that is a load of shit. The meek wont inherit a damned thing until they eliminate anyone who can take it from them. If reasonable people want to preserve the integrity of Western Civilization, then we have to start devising ways to intellectually terminate those modes of thought which would see it destroyed. And simply countering speech with more speech wont cut it any longer. We’re in a stagnant shouting match with childish minds who refuse to listen to reason and something drastic has to happen if we’re to overcome this state of affairs. It’s a cold fact of reality that few wish to acknowledge but we’re going to have to grow up and acknowledge it eventually lest we lose what makes our society worthwhile.
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So...went and watched Solo today at the AMC across town. Not a great movie by any means, apart from effects and the visuals. However, that's par for the course where Disney films are concerned anymore so you can't really measure a film's greatness by those factors alone these days. I think I'm in agreement with whomever it was who said the film adds nothing significant to the Star Wars mythos. And, frankly, I think the manner in which Chewbacca and Han met in the 'Legends' continuity is much more interesting. It's a shame, really. The cash-flow formula that seemingly infests films these days is very much at work here. If I had to characterize Solo, I would call it a low-brow, less complicated version of Ocean's 12...in space... The characters aren't that interesting and seem to be cut whole cloth out of some generic guide for character development that you can buy on the discount rack at Wal-Mart. Most of the film is easily forgettable and wont be worth discussing in 40 years time. It's much the same with all the other SW films Disney has churned out, and is likely to churn out, from the assembly line, Rogue One not withstanding.
Where Disney is getting it right, I think, is the Marvel films. So far this year, they've released a ground-breaking epic in Black Panther, a very decent first act to the Infinity War saga, and, just recently, a somewhat light-hearted "relax and have fun" entry in Antman and the Wasp, which I saw last night at Flix. It's been ten years now and I don't believe I've seen one bad superhero film come out of the MCU. Granted, some weren't as good as others but when you're dealing with puzzle pieces in an even larger epic, not every piece is going to be a center piece. When it comes to a series like the MCU, I tend not to give too much weight to notions of better or worse. The MCU is structured like any long-running arc in a comics title. Some stories carry over significant details to the greater narrative and some stories are self-contained, lending only a hint of context to the overall picture. Antman and the Wasp was one of the latter. It was a fun, enjoyable 'popcorn' flick that gives us a brief interlude before the last big reveal in the scope of the last ten years of stories.
Going forward, I think we can expect some manner of reality-bending event that allows Disney the creative freedom to incorporate the X-Men characters and films into the MCU continuity. There's just no other way to go about it unless Dr. Strange simply starts transporting characters across the Multiverse when the time is convenient. Anyone who knows the history of comic books will tell you that the trend in story telling evolved over time to include periodic 'resets' that gave the publisher room to keep things fresh. DC has had to do it on a very regular basis in order to keep their small crop of 'superstars' relevant in the the modern age of comics. Marvel has the advantage of having a bigger crop of interesting characters to draw upon and doesn't need to rely on tricks to keep their top-flight heroes relevant. DC, on the other hand, has only a few big guns and needs to work harder to keep up the pace, as evidenced by the less than tepid response to the majority of the DCEU films. They had a decent thing with the Christian Bale films but they just can't seem to keep from shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to the big screen...
Fanboy shit aside, I'm more than a little distressed about all the political bullshit going on right now. Trump keeps sucking off Putin. Congress can't seem to muster the testicular fortitude to do anything about it. And theocrats with fascist intentions seem to be having no trouble getting their draconian bullshit through the political door. And I can't do anything about it apart from vote in elections. If this new asshole Kavanaugh gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, we can pretty much kiss goodbye all the social progress we've made in the last forty years or so. Roe v Wade will be gone. LGBTQ rights will go the way of the Dodo. And any semblance of reasonable progressive policy-making will evaporate as the federal government is taken over by people not so dissimilar to the kind that helped make Nazi Germany the quagmire that we all remember.
If Roe v Wade does go, then I think all of you women out there need to seriously consider taking a page out of the Lysistrata and deny men sexual pleasure no matter when, where or for what cause the possibility may arise. Ignorance needs stern responses and there are few things men understand better than being deprived of their money and their sex. Sure, a lot of men may just seek it elsewhere, but the idea is not to deny men sex. It's to deny them the assumption that the status quo is acceptable, and sexual gratification is very much a part of the status quo. It needs to be understood that the release of pent-up desire with a woman is a privilege and not an automatic right. So keep those legs closed, ladies...at least until men get the picture that their perceived authority is doing serious damage to the world in which we live.
To be more clear, it's about deconstructing 'man culture' bit by bit, and it will take a while. There's no doubt about that. To begin with, though, we can begin to deconstruct the popular tropes of manhood that keep most men from taking a closer look at the world and evolving in their consciousness. For instance, let's take motorcycles. Sure, there are plenty of women who enjoy riding bikes. Unfortunately, there aren't enough men willing to suppress their egos to the point that they would willingly let their women drive while they ride on the back. Yes, I'm saying that equality means the 'mamas' get to drive while the fat, ugly slobs ride bitch. Until I see a lot more of that, I will have nothing good to say about 'biker' culture.
Another area where we can deconstruct man culture is the arena of sports. For one, we can work to de-emphasize the interest society seems to give to violent sports in general, and College Football specifically. There is no longer the need to perpetuate the 'warrior ethic' in society so there is really no need to continue giving men these entertainment outlets through which they can indulge these tendencies. It's bad enough that we have a government so invested in the war industry that they'd gladly gut the resources diplomats rely on to keep the dialogue between nations working, or take healthcare away from needy children, to further perpetuate the insanity of military conflict. Thanks to the mass perpetuation of social networking, we here on the ground are becoming more of a single society every day, blurring forever the lines on the map that say 'This is Mexico and that is the United States.' Thus, there is no need to continually shore up the military industrial complex, which is, itself, a bloated outgrowth of the man culture 'warrior' trope.
But I digress. Where it concerns College Football, the media industry that makes the college game so profitable, is perpetuated on the backs of 'amateurs' who get little, if any, fair compensation for their labor. We call that exploitation and we've had many, many years of social activism and legal policy which should have educated us on the fact that labor exploitation is WRONG. However, many of the people who watch college football are blue collar, cheap-beer swilling neanderthals who would be completely up in arms if their bosses were trying to exploit them...yet they have no trouble going home on the weekends, killing a case of beer-flavored piss and watching a bunch of relative 'kids' knock each other around, potentially doing permanent damage to their brains, for the sake of hard-earned rest from the travails of wage-slavery... I don't know what the rest of you call that but I call it hypocrisy...
As for how we make sports more equal between the sexes, well that's an easy fix as well. All forms of martial art have weight classes to some degree, therefore we start mandating that all forms of sport for entertainment lose the gender segregation and begin a structural reorganization around size and weight. Thus we compensate for the fact that women are, on average, smaller than men. Now some will say it's a pipe dream, given that women's sports are less interesting and profitable but there are people like me who don't give a shit about profit. Plus, I'd much rather watch Women's Volleyball at the Olympics than any competition put on by men. At least that was the case when i still gave a shit about sports.
And then there's the sex industry. I recall reading recently that Stormy Daniels got arrested after performing at a strip club in Ohio because she violated a rarely enforced legal clause that prohibits physical contact between performers and patrons in such establishments. Now, I'm very in favor of admiring beautiful women. I think most of humanity is geared this way, in that we have a natural tendency to be drawn to that which is more physically appealing. However, strip clubs and the sex industry in general are a major component of man culture and help to perpetuate the privileged mindset that goes with being a man these days. Now, I don't frequent strip clubs. I'm not going to pay for the 'joy' of watching naked women in person when I can just get it free on the internet. Therefore, I would have no problem whatsoever in legislating strip clubs and adult bookstores right out of existence despite my preference for the fairer of the fairer sex...
Some might want to chastise me for trying to ruin people's fun but I care about making the world a better place and to do that, we need to move past many of these entrenched social divisions that keep us from achieving a better standard of equality; these barriers that get in the way of us seeing each other as humans, rather than any other designation. Thankfully, we're getting to an era where many of the misogynist fucks in the baby-boomer generation wont be around for much longer. Thus, their grip on politics will fade and we may just see a turn towards a more reasonable future. However, there are still many ignorant assholes in the GenX category who don't quite understand that it's time to evolve. Thankfully, many Millennials and post-Millennials seem to be leaning progressive and maybe that's a good sign. However, if we're to keep them from getting corrupted by the same social and political shit that turned so many of my generation away from the hope of environmental activism and evolved social consciousness, then we're going to have deconstruct and remold so many things that give men the illusion that they're still on top of the social game.
Where Disney is getting it right, I think, is the Marvel films. So far this year, they've released a ground-breaking epic in Black Panther, a very decent first act to the Infinity War saga, and, just recently, a somewhat light-hearted "relax and have fun" entry in Antman and the Wasp, which I saw last night at Flix. It's been ten years now and I don't believe I've seen one bad superhero film come out of the MCU. Granted, some weren't as good as others but when you're dealing with puzzle pieces in an even larger epic, not every piece is going to be a center piece. When it comes to a series like the MCU, I tend not to give too much weight to notions of better or worse. The MCU is structured like any long-running arc in a comics title. Some stories carry over significant details to the greater narrative and some stories are self-contained, lending only a hint of context to the overall picture. Antman and the Wasp was one of the latter. It was a fun, enjoyable 'popcorn' flick that gives us a brief interlude before the last big reveal in the scope of the last ten years of stories.
Going forward, I think we can expect some manner of reality-bending event that allows Disney the creative freedom to incorporate the X-Men characters and films into the MCU continuity. There's just no other way to go about it unless Dr. Strange simply starts transporting characters across the Multiverse when the time is convenient. Anyone who knows the history of comic books will tell you that the trend in story telling evolved over time to include periodic 'resets' that gave the publisher room to keep things fresh. DC has had to do it on a very regular basis in order to keep their small crop of 'superstars' relevant in the the modern age of comics. Marvel has the advantage of having a bigger crop of interesting characters to draw upon and doesn't need to rely on tricks to keep their top-flight heroes relevant. DC, on the other hand, has only a few big guns and needs to work harder to keep up the pace, as evidenced by the less than tepid response to the majority of the DCEU films. They had a decent thing with the Christian Bale films but they just can't seem to keep from shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to the big screen...
Fanboy shit aside, I'm more than a little distressed about all the political bullshit going on right now. Trump keeps sucking off Putin. Congress can't seem to muster the testicular fortitude to do anything about it. And theocrats with fascist intentions seem to be having no trouble getting their draconian bullshit through the political door. And I can't do anything about it apart from vote in elections. If this new asshole Kavanaugh gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, we can pretty much kiss goodbye all the social progress we've made in the last forty years or so. Roe v Wade will be gone. LGBTQ rights will go the way of the Dodo. And any semblance of reasonable progressive policy-making will evaporate as the federal government is taken over by people not so dissimilar to the kind that helped make Nazi Germany the quagmire that we all remember.
If Roe v Wade does go, then I think all of you women out there need to seriously consider taking a page out of the Lysistrata and deny men sexual pleasure no matter when, where or for what cause the possibility may arise. Ignorance needs stern responses and there are few things men understand better than being deprived of their money and their sex. Sure, a lot of men may just seek it elsewhere, but the idea is not to deny men sex. It's to deny them the assumption that the status quo is acceptable, and sexual gratification is very much a part of the status quo. It needs to be understood that the release of pent-up desire with a woman is a privilege and not an automatic right. So keep those legs closed, ladies...at least until men get the picture that their perceived authority is doing serious damage to the world in which we live.
To be more clear, it's about deconstructing 'man culture' bit by bit, and it will take a while. There's no doubt about that. To begin with, though, we can begin to deconstruct the popular tropes of manhood that keep most men from taking a closer look at the world and evolving in their consciousness. For instance, let's take motorcycles. Sure, there are plenty of women who enjoy riding bikes. Unfortunately, there aren't enough men willing to suppress their egos to the point that they would willingly let their women drive while they ride on the back. Yes, I'm saying that equality means the 'mamas' get to drive while the fat, ugly slobs ride bitch. Until I see a lot more of that, I will have nothing good to say about 'biker' culture.
Another area where we can deconstruct man culture is the arena of sports. For one, we can work to de-emphasize the interest society seems to give to violent sports in general, and College Football specifically. There is no longer the need to perpetuate the 'warrior ethic' in society so there is really no need to continue giving men these entertainment outlets through which they can indulge these tendencies. It's bad enough that we have a government so invested in the war industry that they'd gladly gut the resources diplomats rely on to keep the dialogue between nations working, or take healthcare away from needy children, to further perpetuate the insanity of military conflict. Thanks to the mass perpetuation of social networking, we here on the ground are becoming more of a single society every day, blurring forever the lines on the map that say 'This is Mexico and that is the United States.' Thus, there is no need to continually shore up the military industrial complex, which is, itself, a bloated outgrowth of the man culture 'warrior' trope.
But I digress. Where it concerns College Football, the media industry that makes the college game so profitable, is perpetuated on the backs of 'amateurs' who get little, if any, fair compensation for their labor. We call that exploitation and we've had many, many years of social activism and legal policy which should have educated us on the fact that labor exploitation is WRONG. However, many of the people who watch college football are blue collar, cheap-beer swilling neanderthals who would be completely up in arms if their bosses were trying to exploit them...yet they have no trouble going home on the weekends, killing a case of beer-flavored piss and watching a bunch of relative 'kids' knock each other around, potentially doing permanent damage to their brains, for the sake of hard-earned rest from the travails of wage-slavery... I don't know what the rest of you call that but I call it hypocrisy...
As for how we make sports more equal between the sexes, well that's an easy fix as well. All forms of martial art have weight classes to some degree, therefore we start mandating that all forms of sport for entertainment lose the gender segregation and begin a structural reorganization around size and weight. Thus we compensate for the fact that women are, on average, smaller than men. Now some will say it's a pipe dream, given that women's sports are less interesting and profitable but there are people like me who don't give a shit about profit. Plus, I'd much rather watch Women's Volleyball at the Olympics than any competition put on by men. At least that was the case when i still gave a shit about sports.
And then there's the sex industry. I recall reading recently that Stormy Daniels got arrested after performing at a strip club in Ohio because she violated a rarely enforced legal clause that prohibits physical contact between performers and patrons in such establishments. Now, I'm very in favor of admiring beautiful women. I think most of humanity is geared this way, in that we have a natural tendency to be drawn to that which is more physically appealing. However, strip clubs and the sex industry in general are a major component of man culture and help to perpetuate the privileged mindset that goes with being a man these days. Now, I don't frequent strip clubs. I'm not going to pay for the 'joy' of watching naked women in person when I can just get it free on the internet. Therefore, I would have no problem whatsoever in legislating strip clubs and adult bookstores right out of existence despite my preference for the fairer of the fairer sex...
Some might want to chastise me for trying to ruin people's fun but I care about making the world a better place and to do that, we need to move past many of these entrenched social divisions that keep us from achieving a better standard of equality; these barriers that get in the way of us seeing each other as humans, rather than any other designation. Thankfully, we're getting to an era where many of the misogynist fucks in the baby-boomer generation wont be around for much longer. Thus, their grip on politics will fade and we may just see a turn towards a more reasonable future. However, there are still many ignorant assholes in the GenX category who don't quite understand that it's time to evolve. Thankfully, many Millennials and post-Millennials seem to be leaning progressive and maybe that's a good sign. However, if we're to keep them from getting corrupted by the same social and political shit that turned so many of my generation away from the hope of environmental activism and evolved social consciousness, then we're going to have deconstruct and remold so many things that give men the illusion that they're still on top of the social game.
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THE RULES OF MY PROFILE & GALLERY - Things you may do - - You are always welcome to browse my art and make critiques or leave constructive feedback if you desire. - You are welcome to engage me in civil discourse provided you are not simply challenging my positions as a means of (un)intellectual obstruction. Things you may NOT do - - If you are a a religious person of any persuasion, you may NOT raise debates. I have made my mind up about religion and I am not interested in hearing your opinions. This includes any New Age BS as well as any form of Deepak Chopra-ish Woo-think. - Furthermore, you may NOT proselytize in any way. This includes 'just asking questions' as a means to weasel your religious foot in the door. - Ignorance is not allowed in my sphere of influence. This includes, but is not limited to, Homophobia, Misogyny/Misandry, Racism or overt Bigotry. Violate these tenets and YOU WILL BE BLOCKED! QUOTES & SAYINGS - "Always remember that you are the artist, the creator. It is your own ego that is being satisfied. It is rewarding if others understand your aim, but it is never your duty to explain it... Have the courage of your conviction--for you will never be happy being anything else." - David Smith "Nostradamus did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks." - Cecil Adams "Everyone is born human. No one is born religious. HUMAN RIGHTS come first." (Me) "Nothing is more dangerous in the wrong hands than faith." (taken from a TV show) "Opinions are meaningless without credible facts to support them." (Me) "The line between protecting liberty and enforcing tyranny is measured by the number of jackboots on the ground and sticks in hand." (Me) Nothing is Popular Without Popular Consent... (Me) PERSONAL - My name is J. I'm now, officially a middle-aged loon who doesn't have a fucking clue where the pieces fit, nor do I even know if they are all in the box... I'm an Atheist of the Antitheist variety. What this means is that I reject any and all god claims (as an Atheist) and I stand against all expressions of religion within the human sphere (as an Antitheist), though I will admit that I'm evolving to the point where what you believe isn't as important to me as what you're doing with it. Basically, progressive christians doing good can be forgiven their naive beliefs. Morally-bankrupt, backward-thinking, Trump-tard Evangelicals can fucking die for all I care. Until recently I was active in my local Atheist scene but have put that on the back burner given the apathy within the movement and the lack of movement on anything substantial. High School students are standing up to the NRA and their pet politicians...city council invocations and 'Day of Reason' proclamations just aren't that important anymore... I support social equality in the broad sense. Anything I can do under the law should be available to all reasonable Americans regardless of circumstance. I take great exception to the notion that bigotry, racism, homophobia and any other defects of the human condition can be justifiable so long as they fall under the aegis (that means shield...) of religious freedom. Also, I would prefer to live in a world where people discuss their social responsibilities and not just the things to which they feel they have a right. Issues related to economic inequality and mental health are particularly important to me at the moment as well. A quote (rather, a paraphrase...) of mine from a recent discussion - "In order for freedom of expression to properly live up to the mission for which it was devised, that of emboldening the human spirit, freedom of religion needs to be curtailed to a certain degree. Basically, I advocate for a prohibition on any acts or deeds in the name of religion that adversely interfere with the dignity of individuals in their everyday lives and the basic humans rights to which they are entitled." |
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