Why I hate America

[CORed]

No no no.

Sex is not supposed to be fun, according to Liberty University. It's an obligation, the marital sex, missionary position type. Other types of sex are sin. It's those damn evil libruls who like sex, all kinds of deviant sex, like gay sex or donkey sex.

Maybe I'm strange, but I find sex in the missionary position to be quite fun. I wouldn't want to be limited to doing it that way though. That might get a bit boring.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Well yes. I've never understood why Christian "conservatives" don't get as upset about cheeseburgers and cotton-polyester blends as they do about gay sex.

Perhaps there's a connection there: they're secretly afraid the gays will criticize their fashion choices and weight.

 

[Brainster]

There is a certain amount of common sense that needs to be applied. If it's a spokesman or someone with a high profile job at Monsanto I don't think you have a choice but if it is a secretary or dock worker you have a responsibility to ignore it. If you are working for one political party and promoting the opposite party that's easy too. There is a difference between situational ethics and core principles.

It sounds like you are acknowledging that private companies have the legal right to fire or refuse to hire people for their political activities, but that they are not necessarily morally right to do so. I don't particularly disagree with that, and I suspect that the vast majority of companies don't give a hoot about their employees' political activities as long as it doesn't interfere with work.

ETA: Kaep's latest effort to ensure his continuing unemployment:

“A system that perpetually condones the killing of people, without consequence, doesn’t need to be revised, it needs to be dismantled!” Kaepernick said, with a photo of a modern-day police badge next to a “Runaway Slave Patrol” badge.

 

[acbytesla]

It sounds like you are acknowledging that private companies have the legal right to fire or refuse to hire people for their political activities, but that they are not necessarily morally right to do so. I don't particularly disagree with that, and I suspect that the vast majority of companies don't give a hoot about their employees' political activities as long as it doesn't interfere with work.

I think we are on the same page. We were originally talking about my issue with displays of patriotism and more specifically showing respect for the flag and at least tolerance for the rights of others to protest and express an opposing political position. How the first act is shallow even meaningless without the second.

Aaron Sorkin did a great job in expressing my feelings on this in the movie The American President.

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free".