Last night a new Miss America was crowned. She is African American.
I have noticed how some dark-skinned African Americans have complained that light-skinned African Americans are treated with equal rights.
They see President Obama win as president but they are less impressed when a light-skinned black man wins.
Do you think light-skinned black people are treated differently than dark-skinned black people?
When I was growing up, I went to a conservative Christian church. One of the thoughts that was constantly taught was that a Christian should be willing to die for their faith.
The teaching wasn’t that we should be willing to die in a suicide mission. We were Christian, not Muslim.
The teaching was that if someone were to hold a gun to our head and ask us to deny our faith, we should hold to our faith and let the person blow our brains out. Then we could have eternal reward with God in heaven.
Would you be willing to die for your faith?
U.S. troops are running into gay Muslim extremist in Afghanistan that are in denial about being gay.
It is against their religion to be gay. But the men believe they can use other men to fulfill their “sexual gratification” as long as they don’t “love” other men. Here is the link: Link
Are you technically not gay as long as you only use men for sexual gratification?
I was just reading an article that mentioned the practice of allowing medical students to give patients gynecological exams without their knowledge during surgery.
Apparently it is a common practice in Canada to bring in medical students to give them a little practice with the gynecological exams while women are having unrelated surgeries. The thinking is that women would not consent to be checked by a medical student so they are just practicing while the women are out during surgery without the knowledge of the women. Here is the link: Link
Do you think it is unethical to give a woman a gynecological exam without her knowledge?
I have been reading so much about how difficult it is for each of us right now. I am hearing about how unemployment is as high as everyone can remember. But tonight I was walking around the mall looking for a belt and it came to mind that we are all kind of negative and ungrateful.
If you are reading this right now, you have electricity and the Internet. Do you realize that electricity in a home is pretty new? For most of human history, there was no electricity in homes.
My dad was raised poor and he said the greatest invention of all times was the indoor toilet. He said it was terrible walking out in the dead cold of a Michigan winter just because you had to use the toilet. He said it was scary to sit down outside in an outhouse in the middle of the night.
If you can read this, you probably can walk over to the fridge and get something to eat. It may not be your first choice but it may be bread. Some child around the world is crying tonight and is hoping to find one piece of dried up bread.
Almost everyone who is reading this has a car or has a parent with a car. Almost everyone reading this has heat in their house. Almost everyone reading this has a nice bed with sheets on it. If you want water to drink, you can walk over to the sink and get water. Almost everyone reading this has a cell phone, washer and dryer.
I am not making light of the recession because it is terrible that people are without jobs and that others are paid so much less than they have ever been paid before.
But the reality is that if you are sitting at a computer right now reading this, that you have so much more than most of human history could ever dreamed of having. You are rich compared to so many others.
Maybe it is time for us to stop complaining about how difficult things are and be thankful for all that we have.
A group of atheist are protesting a stamp with the image of Mother Teresa.
The group is trying to get out information about the “darker side” of Mother Teresa.
The group believes that since Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun, then she should not be placed on a stamp. The concern is that she is known mainly for her “religious undertakings.” The Postal Service indicated she was know mainly for her “humanitarian work.” Here is the link: Link
Do you think Mother Teresa should be featured on a stamp?
Gayle Haggard, wife of former pastor Ted Haggard, has said that her husband was “‘cured’ of his homosexual compulsions.”
She wrote a book called, “Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour.”
She also said, “Our sexuality is conditioned, and we can be conditioned in any number of ways.” Here is the link: Link
Do you think homosexuality can be cured?
Don’t deny it. You know you want it.
Do you want the new iPad?
I was just reading an article about a high school that was attempting to stop kids from dancing in a way that was seen as sexual. The school has outlawed “sexual bending” and other activities like “touching of breasts, buttocks, or genitals.” They have also been told “Both feet must remain on the dance floor at all times” which is how I dance. (I am not sure how that works with dancing). Here is the link: Link
But that is not what I want to focus on. I want you to look at the photo that came with the article.
Is the dancing in the photo “too close” for high school dancing?
So, are you planning on seeing The Lovely Bones movie?
