Comments on: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

By: carlsblog

carlsblog — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:05:38 +0000

I gave you the thumbs up (the first one at this point). Let’s just get it straight that MLK and others of his ilk were largely following Christian morality as practiced by its Founder where race, as in the Story of the Good Samaritan was in spite of Jewish racial divide as practiced especially by the Jewish leadership, in that day versus Samaritans, in our day versus Palestinians. The difference today is that it is the Israeli nation state that keeps hostage its own people, and not the Roman Empire.
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being”…we are of one blood, there is no place for racism in the theologically Christian view of reality.

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By: carlsblog

carlsblog — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:49:10 +0000

It is an injustice at its root, but not in the way you say. You fail to realize that it is not a civil right to be gay. It is a misunderstanding of what it means to be human, a perversion of God’s order and design. It is thus infamy, a violation, and thus injustice against the Author of your creation and meaning.
Men do not have a right to be mean to you, only a right to point out the Truth. Thank you for the privilege. You are still a human being, ergo, a lost fallen one.

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By: Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:42:11 +0000

You fail to realize, as most Wash U students do, that all those landlords and employers have rights. No one has the right to housing or a job. By saying we should make it illegal to discriminate based on race or sexual orientation you are saying we should violate people’s property rights. People have the right to associate and disassociate with who they choose regardless of reason. It may be despicable to discriminate against someone for something so petty and irrelevant, but when we let the government tell us who we can and cannot work with, associate with, or live with we deny ourselves basic and fundamental human rights. The civil rights movement isn’t what caused racism to become a marginal rather than omnipresent issue. People themselves changed. For instance, for the 5 years prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 blakcs’ incomes rose at a faster rate than after the act was past.

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By: Lizard Drawn Maze

Lizard Drawn Maze — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:43:01 +0000

Comparing the incident at Mother’s bar with people who sacrificed their lives to help realize basic rights for an entire race is absurd. The life of an average homosexual person in this country is nowhere near the life of an average black person in the middle and first half of the 20th century. Our generation is already overwhelmingly supportive of gays – the future is set up for gays. I don’t think anyone doubts that in the next ten or twenty years, things will be better off and continue to improve. These empty gestures do nothing to accelerate progress; they only agitate the cultural differences (some might say “war) that we are all involved in.

Let me be clear: I am on your side in this cultural face-off, but these theatrics must stop. The oafish, unending masturbation of our generation must stop. We are not freedom fighters. This sense of urgency is so obscenely self-serving when compared with more serious global and cultural issues. Make the self-righteousness stop. Make the arrogance stop.

Let’s start to put things in perspective and find out what really matters.

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By: Seven

Seven — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:57:22 +0000

Every single one of the “white” activists or leaders you mentioned was Jewish. I find it amusing that you’d call rabbis “prominent white leaders.”

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By: Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Very important issue– thank you.

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