Dogmudgeon
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Wed Nov-04-09 12:28 AM
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| 4. Don't mourn -- organize! |  |
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The liberal/younger crowd stayed home. We lost. Solution: make sure our movement and its campaigning apparatus starts getting the vote out in off-year and ho-hum elections.
The fight ain't over. It's only getting started.
--d!
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 Organized religion is dead to me. |
MinneapolisMatt |
Nov-04-09 12:25 AM |
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Religion is destroying our educational system as well. All bad. No good. |
BrklynLiberal |
Nov-04-09 12:27 AM |
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oh please |
paulsby |
Nov-04-09 01:03 AM |
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Wrong, the sooner the GLBT community addresses this the |
Tsar_Bomba |
Nov-04-09 11:37 AM |
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I don't think anyone is apologizing for religion... |
pipi_k |
Nov-04-09 11:45 AM |
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i'm not apologizing for anythign, i'm simply stating truth |
paulsby |
Nov-04-09 01:30 PM |
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All three of my grandkids go to a private Catholic school |
pipi_k |
Nov-04-09 11:39 AM |
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that's a good counterexample |
paulsby |
Nov-04-09 01:31 PM |
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kick |
ensho |
Nov-04-09 11:22 AM |
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*hugs* I am so sorry that more of us Mainers didn't stand up for what is right. |
GreenPartyVoter |
Nov-04-09 12:27 AM |
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right there with you. |
Teaser |
Nov-04-09 12:28 AM |
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Don't mourn -- organize! |
Dogmudgeon |
Nov-04-09 12:28 AM |
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Dogmudgeon |
maglatinavi |
Nov-04-09 02:28 AM |
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Demographics assure us that this will eventually change. |
Tesha |
Nov-04-09 12:28 AM |
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*hugs* for your awesome optimism for the future. But in the short run this still sucks for |
GreenPartyVoter |
Nov-04-09 12:34 AM |
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I'm with you on that one. Organized Religion is ruining the |
Lindsey |
Nov-04-09 12:28 AM |
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it took you this long to figure that out? |
Skittles |
Nov-04-09 12:29 AM |
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Being raised in a fundie house |
MinneapolisMatt |
Nov-04-09 12:36 AM |
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sorry Matt |
Skittles |
Nov-04-09 12:37 AM |
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It's OK. |
MinneapolisMatt |
Nov-04-09 12:39 AM |
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hey - we're making progress |
Skittles |
Nov-04-09 12:41 AM |
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Religions die if they don't get with the times |
anonymous171 |
Nov-04-09 12:29 AM |
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Large powerful institutions do a lot of damage as they die, though |
csziggy |
Nov-04-09 11:51 AM |
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It's been dead to me for a long time! |
MadMaddie |
Nov-04-09 12:29 AM |
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In my adolescene class today, we talked some about GSA alliances in high schools |
harry_pothead |
Nov-04-09 12:30 AM |
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organized or not- i have no use for it. |
dysfunctional press |
Nov-04-09 12:32 AM |
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I used to have good feelings about |
Frances |
Nov-04-09 12:35 AM |
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So, the Unitarians aren't organized? |
ProudToBeBlueInRhody |
Nov-04-09 12:35 AM |
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Yes they are organized. |
Manifestor_of_Light |
Nov-04-09 12:54 AM |
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The UCC certainly isn't. Trust me on this. :) nt |
Critters2 |
Nov-04-09 01:00 AM |
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Prepare for tomorrow, my friend |
Neecy |
Nov-04-09 12:37 AM |
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I am so sorry. |
madfloridian |
Nov-04-09 12:38 AM |
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deleted - pointless |
imdjh |
Nov-04-09 12:45 AM |
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Mpls Matt, I'll have you know that my church (in Mpls) performs several |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Nov-04-09 12:49 AM |
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I gave up on religion a long time ago. |
Initech |
Nov-04-09 12:55 AM |
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Proud atheist here. The New Age "spiritual but not religious crap" is cowards |
Eryemil |
Nov-04-09 12:59 AM |
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"Destroying our community?" |
Beregond2 |
Nov-04-09 02:19 AM |
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You are entitled to your opinion |
Libertas1776 |
Nov-04-09 02:34 AM |
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It's all just idiotic superstitions anyway. The sooner the world is rid of it, the better. |
LostInAnomie |
Nov-04-09 02:31 AM |
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Superstitious, ignorant people generally do superstitious, ignorant things. |
LeftyMom |
Nov-04-09 02:31 AM |
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Try UU and you will find you are very welcome. |
TexasObserver |
Nov-04-09 04:06 AM |
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The seven principles of Unitarian Universalism: |
Manifestor_of_Light |
Nov-04-09 01:07 PM |
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I go to their services a few times a year. |
TexasObserver |
Nov-04-09 02:04 PM |
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My wife keeps asking me why I don't do to church anymore. |
mmonk |
Nov-04-09 05:01 AM |
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The final break from religion can be a very difficult one. |
Jokinomx |
Nov-04-09 11:13 AM |
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has been for about 8 yrs for me. nt |
seabeyond |
Nov-04-09 11:23 AM |
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"I'm glad to see more people leaving the church and finding god." - Lenny Bruce |
Echo In Light |
Nov-04-09 11:29 AM |
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Reform Judaism is fully supportive of same-sex marriage... |
bullwinkle428 |
Nov-04-09 11:31 AM |
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Enthusiastically recc'd... |
SidDithers |
Nov-04-09 11:43 AM |
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The evils of religion are uppermost in determining the history of the world. |
Joe Fields |
Nov-04-09 02:13 PM |
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Shhh! We're not supposed to say anything against religion or the tsk-tsk-tskers will come |
Arugula Latte |
Nov-04-09 02:18 PM |
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