A Few Words About Religion
I was not raised Catholic. My family attended and had been lectured to in Presbytarian churches and for a short time, Unitarian, but I converted while in college once I started going to the old St. George's with my dorm roommate. It fit me like a glove and I felt at home there despite my ignorance of the exotic rituals and prayers everyone else knew by heart. When I say that I am Catholic I say it with the caveat that I am an American Catholic , which is to say I do not agree with everything that comes out of the Vatican. Sorry. I have no issue with homosexuality. Love is love, and people are lucky and blessed to find it wherever they find it. I believe that priests should be allowed to marry and that women should be accorded more prominent positions within the church structure. There's more, but let's just leave it that I realize the Pope is not doing a little jig everytime I open my mouth and declare I'm Catholic. For the totter to that teeter though, I've been t...
I will take that image with me to the grave. It makes me feel so much better about the whole thing. PhotoShop has moved beyond just excommunicating the party-faithful Stalin dacha bashes and gone on to creating a peace we can live with.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I will be so happy when Obama is Prez and Sarah goes on to the bigger and better things that I hope her 15 weeks of fame demonstrate are her destiny. Much like Al Gore's transformation from US politician to world ambassador of, among other things, all things green, I believe that she struck a chord among Americans with children with disabilities and I hope that she will be able to use that for the greater good in a way that is socially productive.
Interesting photo. Does first dude know about this?
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