I woke up, got my coffee, and opened Think Progress. There I saw a headline telling me that the Washington state Senate has approved marriage equality. The article says that this means certain passage of the bill. Then I saw another headline: Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teacher Pay Goes Against A ‘Biblical Principle.’ It’s a somewhat jarring way to start my day. This country can’t agree on anything.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Remind me again: why was it good that we won the Civil War?
I think it had something to do with emancipation.
A goal that wasn’t really attained in the South until about 100 years later.
the Slaves just speak different languages now, and are hidden better…
Small comfort I know, but the country never could agree on anything. Or at most, we’ve generally agreed (the Civil War being the big exception) to keep arguing together.
I’d say the level of disagreement waxes and wanes. I was born in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Era and became politically conscious after the withdrawal from Vietnam. We fought, but until 1995 it was fairly civil. And it was understood that compromise was going to be the result at the end of the day. Ever since 1995, it’s just gotten worse every year. The only time we seemed to agree on anything was in the brief interlude between 9/11 and the ramp up to the war in Iraq. So, maybe five or sixth months out of the last seventeen years.
Wow. What an example of “The Two Americas”. Hard to wrap ones mind around it.
Will we ever be free from the grips of such religious nonsense as we see in much of the South? I fear not.
Didn’t John Edwards (pause for mouthwash) talk about this very thing once upon a time?
sigh, when even the hypocrites point out hypocrisy, you know we’ll not be Saved….
Seems like anything a Christianist doesn’t like goes against Biblical principles, and is probably unConstitutional as well. Funny, that.
True, indeed. Because, obviously, Jesus was a strict Constitutionalist.