Posted on 03/11/2006 10:28:56 AM PST by Gil4
Since the article points out that the entire speech was read, "silence" was not accomplished. What these folks don't seem to understand is that they have a right to free speech ... and we have a right not to have to listen to their perverted drivel.
"The parents of our students have entrusted their sons and daughters to our care. Liberty has an obligation to these parents not to expose their children to a media circus that might present immorality in a positive light," Falwell's statement said."
Thank you, Jerry. I don't agree with everything that you say, but this is refreshing.
.."the riders had met with city and campus police representatives .... and were told they might face stiff penalties, so what happened surprised no one."
Well, apparently Jacob's father was quite surprised.
"This is by far the most hostile and intimidating situation we've faced," said Jacob Reitan's father, Philip Reitan. "It's incredible that you can have a university of higher education ... But 35 gay and lesbian and transgender students walk on and they arrest them."
Earth to Philip: they were told they might face stiff penalties! BTW, if this is the most hostile and intimidating situation you've ever faced -- you really need to get out more! Just don't expect me to listen to you attentatively while your whining about the understanding your little gay son needs.
What is DU? Democratic Underground?
What? That women and people who believe different than you must still respect private property rights? I don't care what your position is, this is a reasonable demand: Stay off of private property unless invited or granted permission.
Look, I have lurked here for years. I only recently began posting and I did not come to make enemies of anyone. So, we may just have to disagree a bit here.
Probably was. Hehehe
Do you recall that? How old are you? I'm 55 and I don't recall that. Just wondering...
FMCDH(BITS)
Either there's a God, or there's not. If there's not, we should all be out playing golf instead of debating this issue. If there is a God, the queers are going straight to hell unless they stop their nasty habits, along with some others.....
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1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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...and from the way things are shaping up on the world scene, we're all going to find out pretty soon if we could have been better golfers.
That's what I was getting at. Jesus certainly acknowledged that a woman had committed adultery. He admonished her and told her to abandon sin. He, however, did not stone her and reminded all present that they were really no better.
Yes, Jesus forgave, but he did not let sin go unacknowleged. Rather, he sought to bring others to lift themselves above it.
That's the nice thing about books - they record history so you do not have to be so old to actually remember everything.
He dissented with the Whig party, did he not? It was out of this dissent that the Republican party was born!
That he had opponents arrested sounds sorta despotic to me.
Yeah, it is nice how the elites look out for one another. Jefferson Davis did, however, remain until his dying day, an unyielding opposer of power centralized in the Federal government. Perhaps, we should wish that they should have won. Not that I condone slavery, but I too, oppose a leviathan federal monster that only grows stronger and larger. Do you advocate such a thing?
I have to agree. I have not stated otherwise. I have no problem with these arrests at all.
I read. Often. Try it.
They freely choose to pay their own money in order to attend a private institution where they will not be subjected to Leftist viewpoints that they find offensive. They did not go looking for the gays, the gays went looking for them
What would be your opinion of some people trespassing into the staging area for a Gay Pride parade to read from Leviticus?
As I have stated, I have no problem with the arrests. The gays did, in fact, trespass, and so arrest is a legitimate way of dealing with the offense.
I would feel exactly the same were the tables reversed.
Yeah, right.
Don't kid the kidders, Scorp. That whopper -- from someone who's never seen "maroon" or "series," and who pretends not to understand "DU" -- says more about you than your profile ("kool aid drinking Republicans," eh?).
Why don't you pack up your "dissent" and take it somewhere else? Like Liberty University, FR is private property, and not an appropriate forum for your "free-thinking" dissent.
I have offended you in some way? Explain this for us all? Have I advocated the behavior of the gays? Have I said the arrests were wrong? What have I done to offend? Is a little discussion unwelcome, or is this simply a mutual admiration club?
I read quite a lot. I thought you were "recalling" from experience, not from reading history.
Oh yeah, and you're snotty. JMHO
FMCDH(BITS)
First, sorry for the long delayed response - but I am working today, so that is my forst priority. However,....
I'm sorry. I thought you were being flippant. My comment WAS snotty, and bad form.
No, this issue dates back to the colonial times. Jefferson himself struggled with the issue. The question of sufferage was left to the states to decide, and it was not until about Pres. Andrew Jackson that sufferage became fairly universal for white men.
They shouldn't be allowed on private property.
I'm glad he did this.
Post 22 by you in response:
They used to say this about women also. And those who dared to say the Earth revolved around the sun.
What were you trying to say then?
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