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  • Google This: Company Says Prop 8 Should be Overturned
    Robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    Google This: Company Says Prop 8 Should be Overturned

    Denver Prophit Jr.
    "I think our ancestors fled England because of religious tyranny, didn't they?"

    Actually, the reverse is true.

    The Puritan's were no more tolerant than than any other denomination, and worse than most.

    After their expulsion from the Church of England, and their migration to the New World, they set about forming one of the most religiously intolerant societies in history.

    The Salem witch trials were an entirely Puritan construction. Whenever there were signs that the populace was uneasy about ritual murder of their neighbors, church leaders would coerce them through McCarthy-like insinuations that if they weren't willing to burn the witches, that they were witch supporters themselves in league wit da debbil.

    The reason that we have any sort of prohibition against government establishing a religion is to slap at the Church of England and the notion of the Devine Right of Kings.

    To Brian Baker:

    Gay people are allowed to marry in all 50 states and always have been.

    Just not to each other.

    The question is why the government recognizes marriage at all.
    I propose that they no longer do so.

    We have written language and a legal system to handle issues of inheritance.

    We have dna testing to establish paternity.

    We no longer have a need to ecourage indiscriminent breeding for it's own sake.

    If people want to marry to make a statement and enjoy certain benefits within their social circle, more power to em.

    Why should the government get involved with marriage?

    Since wethepeople *are* the government, I guess what I am asking is what gives *you* the right to dictate to anyone else what religious/social/mystical ceremonies in which thery choose to particpate.

    No special rights for gays - or straights!

  • Quit Coffee, Save the Planet?
    Robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    Quit Coffee, Save the Planet?

    Sorry - I can't disclose my employer.
    Great folks - but if I posted as an employee it could be mistaken as a reflection on the company.
    If I wanted to go down that road, I'd have to get approval to blog for the company, and frankly, I'm far too much of a loose canon for that.

  • Quit Coffee, Save the Planet?
    Robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    Quit Coffee, Save the Planet?

    There are arguments for and against Fair Trade.
    The simple fact of the matter is that top quality coffee earns the grower a much higher price than the Fair Trade floor price.
    I know that the comapny I work for pays much more on average than the Fair Trade price.

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