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Don't always know what makes you tick. People are in denial because it's a nice place to be; you can get yourself to believe that the white person would be better at the job for real reasons, usually made up reasons that you don't even realize you're making up. People do it all the time. I understand not hiring someone based on your fear that you will treat them differently. Some people are never going to stop being racist, it's too set in their minds without them even realizing how much of a hold it is. Lot of people who say, "I'm not racist," and really are honestly believe that they aren't.

I don't date black guys because a black guy tried to rape me. I'm attracted to them, but I won't date them. It's a silly prejudice, I should get over it, but I can't and well, that's the end of it. I don't think a guy would enjoy dating me if I was nervous the whole time, like, not just regular nervous "omg he's looking at me can he actually like me omg i think i've got a crush" nervous. And I don't want to put me through that at this point, quite frankly, bad enough


But hey, I understand wanting to abort....doesn't mean I don't fight against it. I just understand how someone can do it. Well, sorta. I don't agree with it, strongly, but I understand. Still, I fight.



LOL I just got off the phone with my friend. First he said that Americans are terrorists for killing off the Native Americans and shouldn't complain about al qaeda, dismissing the fact that the first Americans came from his precious Europe. Then When I said that holding predecessors accountable for ancestral crimes would be like if someone took over Germany and started shoving German gentiles into ovens and the world said, well, stop complaining, Germany, you did it too. "I wasn't old enough to even talk then." "Well your parents did." "They died in concentration camps when I was a boy." "Well they were THERE! So you shouldn't be complaining." Then he suddenly had to go. The minute you say that the innocent people who are born from not so innocent people are just as guilty as their parents, there's something wrong.

When hiring, you are obligated to hire based on ability and positive qualities. Does this always happen? No. We live in a world where white people are chosen before minorities, and men before women. Is this right? No! I absolutely believe that the government should take part in assuring that the most capable people are being placed in the nation's jobs, both for the employer and for the consumer.
I'll note that this doesn't ever mean that we should reverse discrimination to favor minorities and women. If I try out for a job which includes lifting heavy objects (such as in a farm/feed store) and a white man happens to be the strongest, he should most certainly get the job. Appearance and other qualities that have nothing to do with the work should NOT be considered at all.

Everyone has the right to be ignorant; and so to be racist. However, when you begin voicing or acting on such an opinion in a way that could be harmful to someone else .. that is NOT okay.

Homosexuals .. ah, here goes. I'm a liberal commie, I know. heart

Our country is not a Christian nation. Sorry, but here we have a little thing called separation of church and state. As a Christian, I can honestly say that I believe denying homosexuals a government-recognized marriage is absolutely ridiculous. Whether the Christian church wants to recognize such a marriage is the choice of the church, but homosexuals deserve the right to live without being pestered, and to marry the one they love?

Disagree? 'Skay, 'cause you can't get married either, sinner.
I don't think YOU can marry either. Your relationship almost certainly grew from a lust, which is also a sin. You saw him and thought he was just too cute? DING! Wrong! Because your relationship sprung from such a vile sin as lust, and probably still grows in it, you can't marry either. How does that sound? Not too good? Well .. it's okay, because we DO have a separation of church and state, and I say we stick to it.

I state again that I am a Christian, and a sinner. I try my best to be a humble Christian, too, because being judgemental is sinning, too. I understand that I have lied, lusted, said God's name in vain, worshiped idols .. numerous sins .. and that I am no better than anyone else, including homosexuals. As Christians, I say we teach through serving and not preach from a high horse.

The fact remains that the marriage of homosexuals harms not one person. As such, these people have the right to be married as far as the government is concerned.

I'll bet the liberals are glad to see you drank the Kool-aid. We don't have separation of religious concepts and state. We merely have a constitutional amendment guaranteeing that the government may not Establish a religion. That means forcing people to worship in a specific way (i.e. declaring the nation Catholic or Anglican or Muslim, and requiring everyone to pray to Allah). That has nothing at all to do with making it illegal to have laws that happen to coincide with religious standpoints. Murder is illegal, yet not every person agrees on that, and many are against murder for religious reasons. Some feel that it is their religious right to murder.

If you take out anything that could be construed as religous from law, you will have anarchy.

The difference between those and something like gay marriage, is that murder, rape, theft etc. hurt an outside party. Gay marriage only concerns the parties involved.

I know you are, I'm just stating the flaw in using the religion theory. For instance in the bible it's okay to kill someone under certain circumstances (it may only be in the new testiment, I'm not sure.) but in law today it's basically wrong unless it's self defence. And even then it's wrong if they think you could have defended yourself without killing anyone.

Because it's forcing a choice you've made upon someone else and their life. You see, I believe that everything is one and the same. We are all Spirit and I believe in reincarnation, so killing something is basically just changing the state that it's in. Someone dying is not a horrible thing to me. But it's the choosing something life altering for someone else that I have a problem with.

Because otherwise it hurts an outside party. I've already stated that. Without setting some ground rules innocent parties are hurt. But things like gay marriage only the couple being married can be hurt. (through divorce and if you believe in it, them going to Hell etc.) It is someone's life and if they wish to hurt themselves, why stop them? Homicide hurts someone who has not made the choice themselves, to be hurt.