Beware of government as the last action hero - MARK STEYN

ocregister. ^ | Sunday, June 17, 2007 | MARK STEYN

[dennisw]

The other day, six Anglican archbishops called for the church to bless the unions of same-sex couples. The Anglican Church of Canada is about to have a big vote on the issue, and depending which way they swing it will either deepen the schism within the worldwide Anglican Communion or further isolate the Episcopal Church of the United States.

But never mind all that. What struck me was the rationale the archbishops came up with. This gay thing, they sighed. We've been yakking about it for years. Let's just get on with it, and then we can get back to the important stuff. "We are deeply concerned that ongoing study," they fretted, "will only continue to draw us away from issues which are gradually destroying God's creation – child poverty, racism, global warming, economic injustice, concern for our aboriginal brothers and sisters and the growing disparity between the rich and the poor."

That's it? Anglicans need to fast-track a liturgy for gay couples so they can free up time to deal with the real issues like global warming? Half that catalogue of horrors seems to be different ways of saying the same thing ("child poverty… economic injustice… growing disparity") in order to give a bit of pro forma padding to the totally cool cause du jour of global warming. Which is so cool that, if an Anglican archbishop shows up at a climate-change conference, he'll be lucky to get in the room, and if he does he'll be stuck at the table with the wonky leg next to the toilet, barely able to see the Most Reverend Almer Gortry up on stage doing his power-point presentation and warning that rising sea levels will send tidal waves crashing through every gay wedding reception in Provincetown by Saturday afternoon.

[Matchett-PI]

“Everybody picks and chooses what they want to believe from the Bible! Some think they don’t but they do.” ~ Ace’s Dad

Exactly.

One man saw another sitting at the table with a Bible, pen in hand. He was using the pen to make a series of horizontal lines in the Bible’s text.

“Underlining your favorite verses?” the first man asked cheerfully.

“Nope,” the man with the pen replied. “I’m crossing out the parts that don’t apply to me!”

More: http://www.tektonics.org/lp/ntcanon.html

[okie01]

"We are deeply concerned that ongoing study," they fretted, "will only continue to draw us away from issues which are gradually destroying God's creation – child poverty, racism, global warming, economic injustice, concern for our aboriginal brothers and sisters and the growing disparity between the rich and the poor."

I would remind the bishops, God did NOT create government. On the Eighth Day or any other.

[tuesday afternoon]

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[tuesday afternoon]

I know some chasids who don’t pick and choose.

[gidget7]

Not everybody!! A lot more than should, but not everyone.

[Matchett-PI]

Yes, everyone.

[goldstategop]

A government big enough to give you free health care and that's big enough to fight global warming and that's big enough to ban transfats from your food... isn't big enough to secure the borders. Yet its big enough to extinguish your freedom in the name of taking care of you. So sayeth Mark Steyn and its a warning we best heed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Liberal religion is on the way out, preoccupied by the temporal and dismissive of the transcendent.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[GOPJ]

There are immigration laws on the books right now, aren't there? Why not try enforcing them? The same people who say that government is a mighty power for good that can extinguish every cigarette butt and detoxify every cheeseburger and even change the very climate of the planet back to some Edenic state so that the water that falleth from heaven will land as ice and snow, and polar bears on distant continents will frolic as they did in days of yore, the very same people say: Building a border fence? Enforcing deportation orders? Can't be done, old boy. Pie-in-the-sky.

Good one!

[goldstategop]

Liberalism is concerned with running our lives. They, the elite have the perfect solutions for us. Our role is to sit down and shut up. It reminds me why Trent Lott is even funnier than Ted Kennedy. He says things liberals would like to say but they're too polite to say them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Liberals believe smoking is a sin but homosexuality is just harmless recreation. They do make moral judgments. Just different from the ones a conservative would make.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Its apopros a liberal church would worship Man and his works. Talk about exalting idolatry. What they never do is pay homage to God and the timeless set of moral absolute commandments He decreed for the welfare and the salvation of the human race.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Government is potent in enforcing a politically correct lifestyle upon us. This same government is powerless to maintain its sovereignty and protect us from potent threats abroad.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Blind Eye Jones]

‘We are deeply concerned that ongoing study,” they fretted, “will only continue to draw us away from issues which are gradually destroying God’s creation – child poverty, racism, global warming, economic injustice, concern for our aboriginal brothers and sisters and the growing disparity between the rich and the poor.”’

Socialism and not the soul is the issue here. They suggest, nay, they state, it’s mostly about money (the root of all evil?). No doubt, they will call for the redistribution of wealth. But can’t they go a step further down their chosen path! Why don’t the Anglican clergy set up a collection plate in Toronto for all the new gay tourists — Toronto wants to attracts big gay spenders this summer — and have their people participate in Pride Parades? Get on the multicoloured party band wagon!

[GOPJ]

Government is potent in enforcing a politically correct lifestyle upon us. This same government is powerless to maintain its sovereignty and protect us from potent threats abroad.

It's like gun control - it's easy to impose laws on the law abiding. It "feels" like something important is happening - - but it's all illusion.

It's harder to make real law - law that effects the lawless - - that's where our guys are falling down on the job.

[Ace's Dad]

I know some Chasids who don’t pick and choose.

They choose to ignore the New Testament, I believe.

[tuesday afternoon]

LOL. Goes without saying.

[twonie]

No, sir, they don’t. That may be your view, but it is erroneous.