Mike,

I noted in another thread that Bobby Kennedy's son, Jack Keenedy, is working with an environmental foundation. He said american women have three times the safe levels of mercury in their reproductive tracts. Mecury poisoning correlates to proximity of coal fired power plants. If you look at the densest evangelical areas you will note a lot of coal fired plants.

Reagan also dumbed down the education system. Dubya - that simple, ignorant, arrogant self rifgteous face you see on TV is a mirror image of america.

The world is complex - the syndicate that can frame a simple black and white or good vs. evil rendering of the world be like a glowing mushroom cloud to moths.

EVangelicals are afraid of dying. Armageddon feeds a certain vanity. Better everyone die together than some live and enjoy life when they (after life) cannot. Its absurd - but I think that's what it is:

Nanny nanny foo foo
you won't live any longer than I do!

Whooppeee we're all gonna die.

Mercury poisoning and born again theology. The Presbytarians, Episcpaleans and Methodist's are talking like that. Just the evangelicals. They stated as treatment centers for alcoholics and now they are the driving force of american society. We've seen worse. Reformations are like the wind - they come and go. t's easy to spot them - there's usually a <>< adorning their car somewhere.

I often wondered if in Hitler's Germany, the common folk traveled around with a swaztika emblazzened slogan like "Proud to be a Nazi" on the back of their carts or folksvagens:)

It has to be mercury poisoning - people wouldn't choose to behave as described. The gay marriage and abortion issue is just a ralley cry for those scared of living and scared of dying. What a weird place to have one's soul trapped.



>Terry:
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>Actually I don't disagree with George's stance on gays. I do feel that marriage should be between a man and a woman. But what alarms me is that the Religious right would choose for:
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>- anti Gay,
>- anti Stem Cell research,
>- anti abortion,
>- anti Arab (i.e. pro Isreal)
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>over
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>- mistaken killing of 100,000 Iraqis,
>- tax breaks for the richest 2%,
>- abandonment of Medicare, eductation, social secirity and the environment
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>If I knew that the religious right felt badly about the war in Iraq but anti-gay was more important, that would be one thing. But I honestly thing the religious right couldn't care less about Iraq or they may even support the war.
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>I am also concerned to hear that Ohio could have been won if the young people (under 30) and got out to vote. The ones who did were 60-40 in favour of Kerry but very few of them showed up. If they open up the draft, that may get the young people's attention so they will find the energy to stand in line to vote even if it is 2 hours in the rain because the voting machines don't work.
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>Mike Smith