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Y2Kevbug11 wrote:

Is anyone else really upset over this? I know she is in a better place, but I keep thinking of Mike hugging her as she died...15 years of struggle....I am tearing up again.

I know what happened was right, but I feel terrible about it.

I'm relieved that it's over for her. I believe in heaven. I believe she's there and now she can have peace. I hope the rest of the family get on with the duty of living. I hope they can somehow forgive and understand each other in time.

I hope, too, that the right to lifers will now sublimate their passion into preventing capital punishment in the US.

Podesta wrote:

bedstuy, a typical 80's working-class gal from the Philly 'burbs would have loved a big, tall guy with a moustache.  Not my taste, but I believe what I've read about Terri being bonkers over Mike.  Gold chains and all.

I was making a joke.  I'm more aware than most of you regarding what was de riguer in the 80's... not to mention men!

Last edited by bedstuy (2005-03-31 10:44 pm)

I finally figured it out:

Some issues (like same-sex marriage): "Popular will should overrule the courts!"

Other issues (like the late Terri Shaivo): "Minority will should overrule the courts!"

Is that about right? Rezzie? Anyone?

Anyone else see South Park tonight?
Kenny was hooked up to a feeding tube.
Or at least he was.

Watching Nightline.  Finally, an intelligent discussion of the Schiavo situation on network television.  One of the guests, a priest, has pointed out that 85 percent of the American public will be subject to a decision about using some kind of life support sometime in their lives, usually at the end.

Redpagan wrote:

where is this great secret Opression against Catholics?

Open your eyes my good man; the secular forces are at hand! It does not take much to see the cages being loaded with Christians and the lions salivating while the world waits with hungered expectation for the carnage in the amphitheater...

You see, people, it's all just a joke. That whole "Oppression of Christians" thing is merely a gag, an amusement. Someone's been pulling a fast one here and snickering up his sleeve all along.

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and campy, when is being beaten, raped, killed, imprisoned, sold to slavery exclusive to Christians?

Camp David wrote:

Redpagan wrote:

where is this great secret Opression against Catholics?

Open your eyes my good man; the secular forces are at hand! It does not take much to see the cages being loaded with Christians and the lions salivating while the world waits with hungered expectation for the carnage in the amphitheater...

Campie, there is an enormous resurgence of Catholicism in the US as well as enormous spread of this religion in the third world. I am astonished by the number of returning or converting parishoners in my tiny parish alone. We have grown at twice the rate of the general population of this county (including me, a returnee) in just the past five years. In fact, we are building a new church to accomodate the SRO crowds at every Mass.

Catholics are not oppressed in the US. For a decade at least before Y2K+ 2 or 3, priests were suspect and the butts of harsh jokes because of the molestations and denials by the Church. The jokes are dying, the trust is returning, the Church is becoming strengthened. It is becoming a wider tent.

With a new pope, I think and hope and expect there will be swift reforms, as in not preventing birth control, permitting married priests.

Meanwhile, as a majority religion/ special interest group in the US, the Catholics are not  being oppressed. Quite the contrary, in fact.  This Schindler - Randall Terry circus and the recent attacks on Kerry over his personal but not legislative stance against abortion are two of the ways in which Catholics have shown they are not only not ooppressed, but many of them are very capable of practicing oppression (and inconsistency).

Catholicism in the US has NEVER been as strong as it is today.

debbiedowner wrote:

Camp David wrote:

Redpagan wrote:

where is this great secret Opression against Catholics?

Open your eyes my good man; the secular forces are at hand! It does not take much to see the cages being loaded with Christians and the lions salivating while the world waits with hungered expectation for the carnage in the amphitheater...

Campie, there is an enormous resurgence of Catholicism in the US as well as enormous spread of this religion in the third world. I am astonished by the number of returning or converting parishoners in my tiny parish alone. We have grown at twice the rate of the general population of this county (including me, a returnee) in just the past five years. In fact, we are building a new church to accomodate the SRO crowds at every Mass.

Catholics are not oppressed in the US. For a decade at least before Y2K+ 2 or 3, priests were suspect and the butts of harsh jokes because of the molestations and denials by the Church. The jokes are dying, the trust is returning, the Church is becoming strengthened. It is becoming a wider tent.

With a new pope, I think and hope and expect there will be swift reforms, as in not preventing birth control, permitting married priests.

Meanwhile, as a majority religion/ special interest group in the US, the Catholics are not  being oppressed. Quite the contrary, in fact.  This Schindler - Randall Terry circus and the recent attacks on Kerry over his personal but not legislative stance against abortion are two of the ways in which Catholics have shown they are not only not ooppressed, but many of them are very capable of practicing oppression (and inconsistency).

Catholicism in the US has NEVER been as strong as it is today.

Do you seriously think he cares about facts and accuracy when he can make crap up and play the poor, oppressed victim card?