Dave Pierce and I are watching "Lincoln". The things I do for my history loving husband .
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Nelson
EXAMPLE: "for score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men a created equal"
If I answered: Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the usa, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
That would be 30 points. Good? good.
~ Cap. Jack
Díaz
A modern Gettysburg Address http://t.co/1bJ2NcLCCP via @stephenwoodfin
Carter
Gettysburg Address remix
Yamada
quotes bout Ron Whitehead's work (from his new 28th book released today):
"Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics." —Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!” —Allen Ginsberg
"The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt." — David Amram
"I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics." —Hunter S. Thompson
Fisher
u think the Gettysburg Address is a number #summerschool
Turner
A modern Gettysburg Address http://t.co/jz9DLgDTN5 via @stephenwoodfin
Gray
Last weekend I had a Gettysburg Address cocktail at @lincolndc, which contains beet purée and was remarkably tasty. http://t.co/7ho1QPu0Xp
Jaitly
I've seen a lot of people posting stuff about the gay marriage and equality debate but it seems, in my opinion, people on both sides have a skewed view.
If you're bringing up Leviticus and other Old Testament books that show sexual immorality(homosexuality among others) and eating pork or trimming your beard as having the same punishment and blaming Christians for picking and choosing what to believe then I believe your argument is invalid. From what I understand, most Christians believe that the New Testament(Jesus Christ) gives us fresh new laws. Even though the laws of the New Testament make a lot more sense, it still condemns homosexuality just as much as being a whore, adulterer, or murderer. My point here is if you're saying Christians(That actually know the Bible) are picking and choosing what to believe then I'd have to say, at least for this subject, you are wrong.
The REAL issue is why does the Bible even have to be mentioned in this argument? Separation of Church and state boldly states that religion should have nothing to do with government or its laws and you should be able to practice whatever religion. If you want your marriage to be a religious ceremony then so be it. But, I doubt that many gay people really care if it's in a church with a Christian priest reading from the Bible. I would say that most just want the same comfort of saying their significant other is their "spouse" and the federal and state benefits of having a cival union.
If two people(who can clearly make reasonable decisions for themselves) love each other and want to marry then LET THEM! WHY does it bother YOU so much what THEY do? You're probably "sinning" just as much as they are!
And if someone brings up that the United States was "built on Christian values" then show me proof and then look up the Trail of Tears and think of all the Native American people "we" murdered and, for the most part, wiped out to claim "our" "Great Land of The FREE".
Rodríguez
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?
Clark
Thought for the day : TM: To bring us up to the present, I was somewhat surprised that there was not more commemoration, more celebration, of the anniversary of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation…
AG: I was surprised too.
TM: What do you make of that?
AG: Part of this goes back to the reputation the Emancipation Proclamation has had attached to it by people like Hofstadter. That line—that it had no more “moral grandeur than a bill of lading”—I encounter at so many levels and in so many places. And, yes, the Proclamation does lack the rhetorical force of the Gettysburg Address. But it is a legal document; it’s got work to do.
And yet I will say this. Just yesterday, I heard a gentleman from the Henry Ford Museum who said that 200,000 people came to see a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation borrowed from the National Archives. I think we underestimate the power that the Proclamation in fact still has.
On the other hand, we made an overture to the White House, trying to solicit their interest for something on January 1, the 150th anniversary. They blew us off. They just weren’t interested. They were in reelection mode and that trumped any interest in Lincoln and the Proclamation. I thought that was really, really, weird. You would think that the first African American president would leap at the opportunity. But no. Absolutely nothing.
Kaneko
A modern Gettysburg Address http://t.co/n8EvqxLjTO via @stephenwoodfin
Gāo
"whats your talent?" "i know the gettysburg address by heart"
Johnson
hate being able to still taste last nights dinner this morning............YUCK.....gotta stay away from the Pad Thai Chicken!!!
Shimizu
A modern Gettysburg Address http://t.co/Pr2EiSw0LQ via @stephenwoodfin
Katiyar
Pursuit of Happiness
I would like to take a moment to introduce myself. I am a young man who is 40 years old and a resident of the Battle Creek Area. I grew up in the Battle Creek and Springfield area and have lived here most of my life. I feel that I am just a regular guy, like most others in the community. I was raised here, schooled here, and am employed here. I own my own home free and clear, I pay my taxes, and try to keep up with the community and also the local politics. I feel pretty lucky for the things I have in my life, however, there is one thing crucial that I am missing. That is, I cannot legally marry the person I consider my spouse, who I have shared my life with for over 8 years.
I am not looking for a marriage that has religious approval, or “religious sanctity”. I do not believe that marriage is exclusively religious, just because of religion's traditional role in sanctifying marriages and presiding over wedding ceremonies. For me, marriage is a contract — a contract that comes with more obligations than rights.
Marriage in America is a civil right that is not now and has never been in the past, dependent upon any one religion or even religion in general for its justification, existence, or perpetuation. Marriage exists because people desire it. The community, working through the government, helps ensure that married couples are able to do what they need to in order to survive.
Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create a loving household and a social and economic partnership. We encourage couples to marry because the commitments they make to one another provide benefits not only to themselves but also to their families and communities. Marriage requires thinking beyond one's own needs. It transforms two individuals into a union based on shared aspirations, and in doing so establishes a formal investment in the well-being of society. At no point is religion needed or even necessarily relevant.
Arguments against the legalization of same-sex marriage usually rely upon religion, religious premises, and religious beliefs. There is a problem with that: if the only arguments against allowing gays to marry are religious, then that is no argument at all.
If marriage is a holy sacrament of a sacred religious institution, then it becomes easier to understand how a union that is regarded as an immoral abomination would cause problems. It would, after all, represent a form of desecration and that would be viewed as undermining a holy institution. Although these religious reasons allow us to make sense out of the claim, that doesn’t mean that the argument is valid — as has been stated elsewhere, the religious arguments against gay marriage are unacceptable in a society based upon secular laws.
Religious beliefs are no justification at all, at least when it comes to public laws and policies. If people accept religious doctrines which forbid same-sex marriage, then they shouldn't enter into any same-sex marriage — just like people shouldn't get divorced if their religious dogmas forbid it. That's a personal choice, left entirely up to them. What they cannot do is insist that these religious dogmas be imposed on everyone else through the law. If they have secular arguments against gay marriage, then they should state them — but leave the religious arguments in the churches where they belong.
Americans who believe in the words of the Declaration of Independence, in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in the 14th Amendment, and in the Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and equal dignity before the law cannot sit by while this wrong continues. This is not a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American one, and it is time that we, as Americans, embrace it.
Sean Hewlett
Battle Creek
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