Posts Tagged as ‘politics’

September 4, 2009

If you’re gonna bitch…

I’m a firm believer that if you’re gonna bitch, you gotta be willing to call people out for the good things they do too.  So since my last post got a little bitchy, I gotta make up for it now.
I don’t have ALL the details, but apparently someone successfully got the attention of the Mayor’s [...]

May 16, 2009

The Politics of Theology

A friend of mine recently told me that she homechurches.  It was a tongue and cheek response to a complaint I twittered during the latest church business meeting I attended. She also pointed out that being a homechurcher makes her “statistically holier than thou. Also we can wear lingerie to mass.“
That aside, she brings up [...]

March 4, 2009

Is turn about fair play or twice as disgusting?

Think back with me for a minute. Back to early 2002. America was in crisis. We’d been attacked, and our existance felt threatened. Laws were passed, laws that took away basic Freedoms we’d enjoyed for decades. The few dissenters were loud, warning that this was a fundamental shift in America and would hurt us all. [...]

January 11, 2009

Writer Excommunicated For Writing

I wish that the title of this post wasn’t true.  I know that like maybe three people read my blog, but I need to write this for other reasons.  It’s just so horrible I can’t believe it actually happened.
One of my new favorite writer and blogger , JF Lewis, got excommunicated from his church for [...]

November 7, 2008

Baby Killer Obama

In an earlier post I talked about my five year old son learning from another child that President-elect Obama is a “baby killer.” Although I personally don’t care for Obama, this made me quite angry. A five year old hasn’t the capacity to understand the context of the statement.
The situation has only gotten worse. [...]