[Fight PFLAG - put $5 in the Red Kettle] 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring

From your comments, it looks as if the libertarians are as anti-American and anti-traditional values as the lefties.

Making assumptions is a dangerous thing, something we are all guilty of from time to time.:) Labels are a lazy way to try and paint someone in a certain light but they are too broad based to be of any value. I am not or have I ever been a libertarian but I certainly don't see them as being anti-American or in most respects anti traditional. I don't agree with them on all points however. In fact on some very important points I disagree with them and could never be a libertarian.

You did your duty however. You managed to get your little dig in on the libertarian party. Collect your bonus points and be happy.

WarHawk42

Your battle scars are showing, but it seems to me that given your age, your wisdom is lacking. Just an observation.

I prefer battle scars fighting for freedom rather than the scars from the masters whip.

WarHawk42

Giving to charity is an OPTION. It is from the heart. Welfare is another story. Are the two getting confused?

Yes they are being confused. If I forcibly took your money and give it to a charity would that be charity? Not by you it wouldn't and it wouldn't be by me either. It wasn't my money to give. That is what the "faith based charity" scheme is. I bet you have problems with the government "welfare" programs as you should. I bet you have even complained about "corporate" welfare. How is this any different?

The idea of faith-based charities from Bush is to not EXCLUDE them because they are associated with "faith," ie, religion, ie, something that works more often than the atheistic systems we are forced to contribute to through tax dollars.

We should be eliminating those we are already giving to not adding more to the public feeding trough. That is the whole point.

Bush's idea is to change the whole mindset, IMHO.

Bush's idea simply adds more feeding on the federal teat.

WarHawk42

No help from me for the Salvation army. Not anymore. I might give them a phoney five dollar bill with bush's picture on it. They supported bush and his unconstitutional faith based charity scheme.

Hi War....LTNS!

All I can say is good thing Gore didn't win......we'd all be stealing from the kettle!
;-)

BTW, when I saw this thread the other day, I thought you were gonna finally come clean!

LOL

PFLAG activists also stirring up trouble in Detroit. Just saw a local CBS news (channel 62) story about PFLAG encouraging people to protest the Salvation Army by tossing notes into the kettle. Sounds like trespassing and harrassment to me. People are invited to drop in money, not notes of protest. Trespass to chattel.

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