Homecoming Queen Redux

Last Thursday, I posted a video from CNN showing a girl with Down Syndrome being crowned Homecoming Queen for her high school. However; I neglected to post what was going on in the video -- as a stone-age reader pointed out -- so I'm just posting this to let you know what was in the video. They did a little interview with the young lady, her mother and some of her friends.

It melted my cold, cold cynical heart and made me cry.

God Bless

St. Bridget Hispanic Ministry

I'll make this simple. Follow the below steps.

1. Read the article on CNN.com.
2. Get out your checkbook.
3. Write out a check to:St. Bridget Hispanic Ministry
4. Put said check in an envelope.
5. Address envelope to:
   St. Bridget Hispanic Ministry
   PO Box 369
   Postville, IA 52162
6. Put envelope in the Mail.
7. Go to sleep tonight knowing you've done something good for someone else.
8. Have pleasant dreams.

God Bless

PS. Any amount is a help, even if all you can spare is $5.00 -- it's something.

Oh, side note to anyone who is sending money to Focus on the Family -- send it to St. Bridget, you'll do more good.

CNN Hero of the Year

James Dobson Needs to Read Both the Bible AND the Constitution

As you can imagine, I don't particularly care for James Dobson. I've never heard the man make one statement with which I agree and I think he has a very limited view on God and Jesus that belongs back in the stone age. Further, I believe that Dobson, his Focus on the Family and other right-wing Christian groups have such a limited knowledge of that which is good for the country that they miss the big picture, which is why they supported George W. Bush.

That said, Dobson came out today and made comments about a speech Barack Obama made in 2006. You read that right. In order to find a statement that he can jump on and use as a reason good Christian people shouldn't vote for Obama, Dobson had to reach back into 2006.

Here's what Obama said:

"Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?

"So before we get carried away, let's read our Bible now. Folks haven't been reading their Bible." -- quoted from CNN.

He said this in a speech in front of the Christian group Call to Renewal. Nothing he said was wrong or even unreasonable. If we take the Bible literally, as evangelical Christians wish us to do, then we have to take the WHOLE Bible and not just the parts we want.

However; James Dobson said (and I'm quoting from the CNN news article) "Obama should not be referencing antiquated dietary codes and passages from the Old Testament that are no longer relevant to the teachings of the New Testament." I find that humorous since Focus on the Family is against gay marriage based on Old Testament beliefs (before you write, I don't believe St. Paul mentioned gays. The passage was about men loving boys, which is sick.).

In closing, I'd like to just say that this just shows that the right wing Christians are running scared. Someone who doesn't pander to them just might be elected President and their outdated views of the Bible and a just society might die with this election. The tide is turning against them and they now just have to ruffle feathers so we don't forget that they're there.

God Bless