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I hope this column is some kind of joke - with statements like "Democrats....believe there is nothing wrong with strangling your mistress" you have lost all credibility.Fat Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07253499885946978483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-81654721114231863392007-12-01T05:51:00.000-08:002007-12-01T05:51:00.000-08:00Thanks for taking part in the Carnival of Fatherho...Thanks for taking part in the <A HREF="http://www.timefordads.com/tfd/2007/12/01/carnival-of-fatherhood-december-2007/" REL="nofollow">Carnival of Fatherhood</A>. I've published it a day early.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14642844408400779387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-74587684935088957082007-10-21T22:07:00.000-07:002007-10-21T22:07:00.000-07:00You write: "I can still feel the sting of his slap...You write: "I can still feel the sting of his slap when I pointed out that he smoked after he caught me with a cigarette. I have passed on these very same values to my own children."<BR/><BR/><B>Jon the hypocrite</B><BR/>No wonder you still smoke: your father showed you his true values by his actions. It's ALWAYS about what you do, not about what you say. <BR/><BR/>If you want to show a moral example, and expect your kids to learn from you, quit smoking and drinking so much! Put your VALUES where your mouth is! To fail to do so is hypocrisy, and hypocrisy confuses and disturbs children, who seek the simple truth.<BR/><BR/>Also your father showed you a morally repugnant example--actual child abuse by slapping you--then expecting you to do the opposite of him drinking and smoking in response to him scolding and hitting you. <BR/><BR/><B>It's likely you were emotionally abused too</B><BR/>No wonder you are so messed up! No wonder you still smoke and drink, and no wonder you love and defend and practice hypocrisy! <BR/><BR/>Anyone, especially a child, as you were when so abused, would be confused by this. Looks like you internalized the confusion, because it is morally repugnant to preach to others one thing, and do the opposite. It is equal to lying, which is against the Bible and also a morally reprehensible act. For your father to hit you while lying that way would confuse and hurt and upset anyone, let alone a child! It was unequivocally wrong, regardless of how much you respect your father's intentions or so-called (obviously twisted) morals.<BR/><BR/><B>God bless you, you need help</B><BR/>I hope you see a therapist! A good one can help you sort out the confusion. <BR/><BR/>I wonder what other abuse your parents dished out? Have you come to terms with that, or internalized it, as so many victims do, as "good for you?" <BR/><BR/>Here are some good websites to find out if you were abused as a chil. Many who were abused often initially deny it--only to discover symptoms of it and make a shocking discovery later in adulthood. <BR/>http://www.co.marion.or.us/DA/victimassistance/Child+Abuse/<BR/>http://www.helpguide.org/mental/child_abuse_physical_emotional_sexual_neglect.htm<BR/>http://preventchildabuse.com/physical.htm<BR/><BR/>Here's something that strikes me as appropos to your situation, from one of the sites above:<BR/><BR/>"In addition, many forms of child abuse arise from ignorance. Sometimes a cultural tradition leads to abuse. Such beliefs include:<BR/><BR/>- Children are property. <BR/><BR/>- Parents (especially fathers) have the right to control their children in any way they wish.<BR/> <BR/>- Children need to be toughened up to face the hardships of life."<BR/> <BR/><BR/><B>Other Christian Conservative hypocrites</B><BR/>It's also very sad that many Christians vilify gay behavior, which is only natural (and a part of the entire animal kingdom, by the way) as immoral--while supporting a war that has blown the heads off mothers in front of their children and returned veterans with no legs, no arms, or in some cases, no consciousness left! <BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Love Thy Neighbor--From Behind</B><BR/>Joking aside, isn't it better to "love your neighbor," be he gay, straight, bi or gay Republican, than to kill him? Look at the hypocrisy there! And this kind of sin kills as opposed to creating pleasure and a human bond out of normal (sexual) human need.<BR/><BR/>The only things Haggerd did wrong were 1) use drugs that are self-destructive--probably self-medicating to cover his inner shame about his gay leanings-- 2) lie about it to his family and his congregation, and 3) condemn it while doing it. The inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness, as reflected in our Declaration of Independence, should apply here. He was acting out of his inner self's need to express his true desires and needs, while being crushed by his community's anti-gay, anti-human rights sentiment and so-called values. (So-called because a value that devalues nature and natural desires is in fact an "anti-value" or a repression of value. I would have to define value in this usage as "that which comes from life, and which people value.")<BR/><BR/><BR/>I wonder about another conservative hypocrite and Bush supporter, Mark Foley, the Congressman who solicited email sex with congressional pages? This leader worked on legislation to protect children from Internet predators--and he ended up being one!<BR/><BR/>The man admitted he was molested by a clergyman (New York Times, Oct. 4, 2006), hid it and failed to seek treatment, and ended up acting out as so many of those abused do unless they reconcile the shame and guilt and pain within.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Bush: AntiChristian and Hypocrite</B><BR/>Back to the subject of values: Why is President Bush acting against family values--again?<BR/><BR/>Wasn't it Jesus who said "Suffer the little children?" Meaning, let them come to him, they aren't a bother...<BR/><BR/>Note the hypocrisy of Bush's veto on a child health insurance bill, effectively saying "Let the little children suffer."<BR/><BR/>Now, forgive me for asking you conservative Christians to do some thinking on the following question, because blind belief without thinking is more your forte: Would Jesus veto a health care bill for children? <BR/><BR/>Even if the bill is "too expensive," where is Bush's counterproposal? Nonexistent. He puts money over people, pure and simple, every time, in virtually every situation that requires good moral judgment. Why do Congress, the president and the Senate have great health insurance, while poor children suffer? <BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Christian "Values": Money over People</B><BR/>And why is child’s health insurance too expensive, but a trillion-dollar-and-rising Iraq war (as comedian Borat rightly calls it, our “war of terror”), with very few concrete results other than dead people, is not? (Isn’t this “big government” spending Bush is doing, the kind Reagan said he opposed when he built up the national debt to record levels?)<BR/><BR/>I see pure hypocrisy in the whole conservative "family values" claim with this issue. How can anyone support "family values" yet allow poor people and children to get sick and fail to obtain proper health care simply because of income? This shows we live in a society that values keeping one's money far above the Christian value of helping the poor and sick.<BR/><BR/>Christian conservatives are largely about getting and keeping money, not about truly loving their neighbors or helping those in need. <BR/><BR/>Again, please put on any thinking caps that remain intact after being decimated by blind belief: According to the facts listed above, would you classify standard modern Christian actions as truly Christ-like or AntiChrist-like?<BR/><BR/>Follow the money: who benefits? The rich, like Cheney, the sales consultant and former CEO for Halliburton, the biggest benefactor of the Iraq War. The NeoCons, who espouse any conservative ideology that wins them votes�then act as though evil, graft, corruption and anti-family values were written into the Constitution, as long as they profit from the "big" government they made--and paid for with constituents� tax money!<BR/><BR/><B>Christian Conservatives: Misguided and Led by Pure Evil</B><BR/>Leave it to conservative Republicans to play AntiChrist while talking up Christian values! This is why real Christians--those who do their best to act as Christ would--laugh at and often cry over the destructive actions of false Christian idols (led by the three-headed AntiChrist "Rush Dubya Cheney"--composed of "Rush Windbag," "Dubya the Retarded" and "Darth Cheney") of the Christian "Right." <BR/><BR/>This is the "Right" that proves itself invariably wrong and often simply evil. The Christian "Right," and their chosen leaders, are simply destroying our nation and others much faster than any Democrat or liberal possibly could. Many such leaders are Christian Corporate Terrorists (CCTs), out to overstuff themselves and their friends at the expense of any who get in their way. They think and act just like Muslim terrorists, using radical Islam to justify what Mohammed never preached, but under the cloak of another religion. <BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Liberal and Progressive: Humane and Truly Christian</B><BR/>Liberals and progressives, opposite of the Christian Wrong, support efforts to nationalize healthcare (protect the "meek"), prevent war and promote honesty and the value of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<BR/><BR/>What will you ever do with leaders so misguided, or as realists prefer to see them, AntiChristian in their actions? I hope you vote them out of office and into therapy!<BR/><BR/>--Tim Mantyla<BR/><BR/><BR/>Please visit my blog on community, ecology and social justice! Read about the newest Republican AntiChristian actions, coming soon to: http://tmantyla.blogspot.com/WARNING VIRUSES ON THIS BLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865673057124139670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1170895148009360302007-02-07T16:39:00.000-08:002007-02-07T16:39:00.000-08:00I don't know why my fellow conservatives have felt...I don't know why my fellow conservatives have felt the need to embrace the whole agenda of folks like Ted Haggard and Focus on the Family. It is not a politically conservative thing, in a classic sense. <BR/><BR/>It has become a very politcally expedient thing with the Rove strategy, with the president who is the biggest spender since LBJ, engineered the biggest federal instrusion into local control of education imaginable, and proposes that the federal governemnt supplant the states in determining domestic relations laws.<BR/><BR/>That aside, Ted Haggard is a goofball. I have no problem with people who sincerly believe homosexuality is an abomination--whether on religious or just a traditonalist or "natural way" argument. <BR/><BR/>I do have a probelm with those who are vehmently working to deny rights and privlieges to that section of the population--all the time they are getting a little on the side from some sleazy male hooker.<BR/><BR/>Regardless of political affiliation that be a hypocrite.<BR/><BR/>And it is just absurd for him to come out and say all the gayness has been sucked out . If he wants to be honest and say he is going to be celibate or suppress any homosexual urges that is one thing. And if he is doing this because he believes homosexuality is a sin that is fine too.<BR/><BR/> But, he is not now a 100% "cured"--he just looks goofy saying so.<BR/><BR/>My ferverent hope is that the Republican Party quits kow towing to this segment of the population. It is hateful and raises expectations that they can not really pursue without the compromise of REAL conservative political values. I don't think this is politcally fatal--many Evangelicals are politcally conservative anyway--and would vote for them even if they were not on the homophobe bandwagon.<BR/><BR/>~BeckyBecky C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06415067599794969890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1170838176689588422007-02-07T00:49:00.000-08:002007-02-07T00:49:00.000-08:00I just wonder, did the drugs make it harder to do,...I just wonder, did the drugs make it harder to do, or just harder to think about? And CNN didn't say anything about his drug addiction. So, is he a recovered gay drug addict now, who wants to study psychology?Greg Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17688459525360750872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1170448569518536092007-02-02T12:36:00.000-08:002007-02-02T12:36:00.000-08:00You hit the nail on the head with that one Jon.You hit the nail on the head with that one Jon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1163376709636592632006-11-12T16:11:00.000-08:002006-11-12T16:11:00.000-08:00Mary: the difference is, I *don't* think that we a...Mary: the difference is, I *don't* think that we are all sinners, because I don't believe in sin. (I do believe in right and wrong, however.) I also am not head of a huge organization of evangelical Christians, and I don't destroy lives by preaching that homosexuality is a sin. Nor, in fact, do I do methamphetamine, cheat on my wife (well, I'm single), or use the services of a prostitute.<BR/>I'm pretty sure Jesus didn't exempt himself from his "no man is not a sinner"; note that he didn't cast the first stone, as he would have done if he had felt himself to be without sin. Yet he did judge the *behavior* of other people (not the people themselves). And the number one behavior he condemned--way above sodomy, for example--was hypocrisy. Praying on street corners, going around pointing out the motes in your brother's eye without noticing the beam in your own, et cetera.<BR/>Ted Haggard was acting as a hypocrite when he preached against behaviors he had himself. (Me, I think that being unfaithful to his wife was the major sin if anything--what was that about not committing adultery? And destroying lives and families by teaching that homosexuality is wrong ranks pretty high up there on the list of "bad things Ted Haggard did".) <BR/>How much more effective would his message have been--assuming he believes in it, because if he didn't, he'd be a worse hypocrite--if he had come forth with the truth *first*, admitted that we're all sinners, including himself, resigned, submitted himself for counselling, et cetera? Slightly more than continually lying about it when confronted by the male prostitute telling the truth, and only after knowing about the voicemail evidence finally admitting it, no?<BR/>Now that it's all finally caught up to him, well, at least *he's* not hiding behind the "everyone's a sinner" defense that doesn't count for the people he preached against. He's even asked for forgiveness. But to hear some people talk, he doesn't need to ask for forgiveness, but we should all forgive him anyway, and because, according to them, everyone's a sinner, we shouldn't condemn sin when we see it. Um, no. Mercy *with* justice, remember? Not just one or the other. <BR/>It's just a matter of trust. I'm more likely to trust people who admit that they've sinned than people who claim to be perfect. "Yes, I tried pot when I was a teenager, it messed my lungs up bad, I got asthma and never could do sports again", or "yes, sometimes I don't tell the truth, and I'm working on that, and I want you to point out to me if you notice me lying" is going to have more credibility than "don't do it, ever, we don't, because we're perfect." Isn't it?<BR/>"But rather than judge him, which would make me a hypocrite since I too am a sinner, I choose to look within my own heart and take a moment to examine my own sins."<BR/>I don't think that it would make you a hypocrite. Acknowledging bad behavior on your own part, attacking it, and attacking bad behavior on others' parts, is not hypocrisy. Judging him *and* judging yourself, both publicly, vs. him judging homosexual people and maybe in private thinking to himself "yeah, maybe I shouldn't have snuck out, done the meth, and bought myself a male prostitute"--see the difference?Gwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405949689921328103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1163327693647922312006-11-12T02:34:00.000-08:002006-11-12T02:34:00.000-08:00This blog is completely sarcastic. Didn't y'all fi...This blog is completely sarcastic. Didn't y'all figure that out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1163311817934406652006-11-11T22:10:00.000-08:002006-11-11T22:10:00.000-08:00If you say someone shouldn't judge, then you are j...If you say someone shouldn't judge, then you are judging what the judger did and you are a hypocrite. If you respond to this positively or negatively then you judged my comment and you are a hypocrite unless you decided it was ok to judge in which case you're okay but watch out for those who tell you otherwise. They are hypocrites.Jaesorealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594538802499948949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1162875849013272112006-11-06T21:04:00.000-08:002006-11-06T21:04:00.000-08:00Bunch of sheep. That is all I have to say.Bunch of sheep. That is all I have to say.Anghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027052626297699261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1162872862797943412006-11-06T20:14:00.000-08:002006-11-06T20:14:00.000-08:00Judging by the comments, this is your most mistake...Judging by the comments, this is your most mistaken-at-face-value post ever. That says something, don't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959879.post-1162849352467297432006-11-06T13:42:00.000-08:002006-11-06T13:42:00.000-08:00I dunno, Mary. Haggard's mess of pottage for his i...I dunno, Mary. Haggard's mess of pottage for his increased influence this last four years has caused an awful lot of dead people. I think we get to disapprove of that.<BR/><BR/>I also agree that people need to lay off Gayle Haggard.juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01261612060585536752noreply@blogger.com