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The least that any governor owes any president is respect.
It’s more than that. The least any PERSON owes any other person is respect.
Imagine what Republicans would have said if what occured at the Mesa airport between Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama had taken place between Gov. Janet Napolitano and President George W. Bush.
Can you imagine the explosions of rhetoric from our U.S. Senators and our Republicans in the House if there was a photograph of Napolitano wagging a finger at Bush?
The condemnation would have been overwhelming.
And justified.
The governor wasn’t at the airport greeting the president on behalf of herself. She was there representing ALL of us. Right, left and middle. Young and old. Men and women.
A simple “Welcome to Arizona, let me know if there’s anything we can do for you,” would have sufficed.
A lecture, an argument, a confrontation of any kind shows disrespect for the office. Not just for the person who holds it.
The governor should be embarrassed.
We all might have different views on politics. But we know good manners, and bad ones, when we see them.
Arizona Republic columnist EJ MONTINI, regarding governor Jan Brewer’s disgraceful, impolitic behavior to the President yesterday.
(via inothernews)
Yep.
Gottdambit THIS.
I’m happy this newspaper is taking their governor to task.
She owes not just President Obama a personal apology, but she owes the White House an apology and the People of Arizona one as well, for embarrassing them like that (via str8nochaser)
Dear Jan Brewer,
Your mother must be so proud.
Praying for your immortal soul,
Undercover Nun
(via golden-notebook)
I signed a bill saying that every hospital must treat gay and lesbian partners the same as heterosexual partners, because NO ONE should have to produce a legal contract to be able to hold the hand of the one they love.
(Source: thesoapboxschtick, via abowlofbranflakes)
Obama bigger tax cutter than Bush
But Rush says Obama is a Communist/Socialist/Marxist/puppy kicker/baby eater, and Rush wouldn’t lie, amiright folks?
“And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.”
— Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), 2007
Tie your shoelaces Sir?
Indeed, and can I wash your feet when you return home?
(Source: youtube.com)
Justice Department will no longer defend DOMA in legal challenges
President Barack Obama has ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as only between a man and woman, according to a Justice Department statement Wednesday.
Thanks be to God! I am reminded of this beautiful(*) song from Isaiah, quoted by Jesus when he spoke in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me
to speak good news to the poor,
recovery of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord!
(*) The song is beautiful; this implies nothing whatsoever about the rendition or the singer.(**)
(**) This is not the bald midget nun you are looking for.
As I travel across the country, folks often ask me, what is it that I pray for? And like most of you, my prayers sometimes are general: Lord, give me the strength to meet the challenges of my office.
Sometimes they’re specific: Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance, where there will be boys. Lord, have that skirt get longer as she travels to that dance.
— President Obama, at the 2011 National Prayer Breakfast
Ah, the prayer of a loving father for his daughters! It made me smile and laugh a little.
“I’m a Christian by choice.”
President Obama spoke these words a few days ago, and I even quoted them here on my tumblr. He made a great statement on his faith, and I encourage you to read it.
These five words, though, really sang out to me, and I knew as soon as I pasted the quotation into the dashboard that I was going to need to say something more about them. The thing is, faith is always a choice. If you’re a Christian, then you are a Christian by choice. Christians are not born; Christians are made. This is why a sacramental rebirth becomes so important, so that we have a way to say, “Here! Here and now, I choose to be a Christian! Today, in this place! I choose Christ!”
Many people think of faith in the same way they think of happiness or sadness, that it’s a vague feeling that just sort of happens to us. We’re either given great faith or not, but we really don’t have any control over it. These people are wrong.
Faith is a verb. Faith is a deliberate, intentional choice. Faith is using your mind and your heart and your body and your soul, integrating the knowledge that you’ve gained from every part of your self, and choosing what to believe. We don’t need faith for ideas like The earth revolves around the sun or Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom or even There is actual cheese in Cheez-Whiz. These ideas can be demonstrated to be correct or incorrect. No, what we need faith for is ideas like God created the universe for a purpose or A place or state of being exists that is free from all suffering or I am a member of God’s chosen people or There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed (PBUH) is his prophet.
Faith is informed by questioning, by doubting, by engaging in the process of working out ideas. Faith actually requires some doubt! If there is no doubt or question about an idea, then it is a fact and not a statement of faith. Questions help us work out tough concepts.
For example, the bodily resurrection of Jesus strikes me as improbable, unlikely, and quite frankly, absurd. [Let me get this straight. God took on the body of a human being, who grew up in what’s now called the Holy Land. Then he traveled to Jerusalem, the most sacred place in Judaism, where his own spiritual leaders had him arrested, interrogated, tortured, and killed. And he decided to come back?!? WTF!] My mind just can’t understand this. It doesn’t make any sense. But the thing is, that’s okay. I choose, intentionally and deliberately, to believe that it is true. My brain questions and doubts the literal, physical facts, so my heart accepts the beautiful mystery of the resurrection of Christ. This is faith. This is my choice.
If you are a Christian (or a Jewish person, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, an agnostic, or anything else), and you did not choose this faith, then you have some work to do. What do you question? What do you choose to believe? Why do you make these choices? Does this really fit the definition of your faith? Does it need to? How do you live out your faith choices?
If you did not choose your faith, then your faith is weak and immature. Just as Socrates tells us that the unexamined life is not worth living, so is the unexamined faith not worth holding.
So when you say that you are a Christian, recognize that you choose to be a Christian. Know that you wrestle with the improbable and absurd — resurrections, feedings of thousands, healings, wheels of fire in the sky, great floods, and other miracles — and that you still make this choice. Know that you choose God, choose Jesus, choose the crazy upside-down-ness of God’s kingdom.
Be an intentional Christian.
Be a Christian by choice.
I’m a Christian by choice. My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Being my brothers and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me, and I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes and we achieve salvation through the grace of God.
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day. … I deeply believe that part of the bedrock strength of this country is that it embraces people of many faiths and of no faith.
Barack Obama, in a conversation with several families, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Undercover Nun says: Amen! Hallelujah!
(Source: The New York Times)
There is no them and us. There’s just us.
President Barack Obama, Sep 10, 2010, 12:20 PM EDT
This is an important Truth. President Obama said these words about Americans: we can’t be Christian Americans and Jewish Americans and Muslim Americans and Hindu Americans and all other kinds — we must just be Americans.
Well, it’s also an important Truth about the Kingdom of God. In God’s Kingdom — which is both here right now and to come in the future — there’s no slave or free, no American or Israeli or Palestinian or Iraqi or North Korean or South Korean, no woman or man or transgender, no heterosexual or homosexual. No, there are only children of God.
Undercover Nun prays with joyful anticipation of the day when we can recognize that we’re all in this together — both in life on our wonderful planet, and in life everlasting in God’s kingdom. May God’s love fill us to overflowing, so that we may spill and pour it on everyone we meet.
8 Steps Obama Should Take to Stop the Oil Spill: Undercover Nun does not approve of anyone taking on the mantle of the Antichrist. However, I am giggling at these suggestions. And I’m praying for the people and the wildlife of the Gulf, for everyone who has been touched by the oil rig explosion.
