As I said earlier, I believe the US Constitution provides us with an opportunity to show love. Unfortunately, most people are using it to spread hate.
It was said that Rick Santorum raised $9 million in February 2012 spreading his love of Christians but this in fact spreads hate for all others. And I already said that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie failed to lead his state into loving those different than his Christian followers when he vetoed the Gay marriage bill. I believe Mitt Romney if elected could set aside his Mormon beliefs, not his support of greed, to run the country. I thanked God that he took Michigan and Arizona on February 28, Wyoming on February 29 and Washington on March 3. I again thanked God when I heard that Santorum failed to file all the paperwork for Ohio so even if he took the state on Super Tuesday, March 6, he wouldn’t get all the delegates.
On March 4 Romney got the support of former first lady Barbara Bush and she said that it’s the worst campaign race she’s ever seen and I agree. On March 6, Romney took Alaska, Idaho, Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia. Santorum took North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Gingrich took Georgia and Ron Paul won nothing. At this point in time Romney has 450 delegates, Santorum has 176, Gingrich - 105 and Paul has 47. Santorum and Gingrich vow to stay in the race; 1144 delegates are needed to secure the nomination and there are 30 states left to vote.
Biases don’t stop here. On March 1, 2012 a Montana federal judge admitted sending a racist email about President Obama. It makes me wonder if his prejudice affects his decisions. Of course Rush Limbaugh, who made $50 million last year, is not concerned over losing 30+ sponsors and 2 stations (he said they’ll just get other sponsors) over his negative comments regarding the college student and the use of contraception (unfortunately Patricia Heaton also said some negative things until she realized that the outbursts were vicious - she immediately apologized). I’m confused with the fact that 15 million people listen to Limbaugh’s ranting; they can’t all be rich Republicans.
On March 6 the President criticized the Republican candidates’ talks about jumping the gun and going to war with Iran when the American people have indicated they are tired of war. I still believe that the candidates are fueling the anger and hatred that seems more pronounced than ever before.
Just a few months ago we had Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson and others harassed because of their weight. Sasha Grey, an ex-porn star, was hassled because she read to kids at a Compton, California elementary school and the school officials didn’t inform the parents; Sasha said she wanted to do it to help remove the stigma with the adult movie industry. I don’t like pornography but the school not Sasha was at fault. On December 2, 2011 we heard about the Milton Hershey private boarding school in Pennsylvania (founded , by the Hershey Foundation in 1909 to help underprivileged students) was being sued because they denied entry to a 13 year old honor student that has HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
In a country where on December 23 an Associated Press poll showed 77% of adults believe in angels I would think that we would know that angels come in many shapes and forms. Our concerns should be directed more at realizing that on December 15 a survey showed that nearly 1 in 5 US women reported being sexually assaulted and that the University of Vermont was shut down because a fraternity asked its members who they’d like to rape. More items of concern should be that it was reported on December 18 that a 47 year old man doused a 73 year old woman with flammable liquid and set her on fire, burning her to death, in a New York elevator because she owed him $2,000 for odd jobs done around her house. Then there’s the December 19 report that the Pediatrics Journal said 1 in 3 kids will be arrested before their 23rd birthday and the December 21 report that Florida teen boys were trashing stores and posting the videos on YouTube to get notoriety or the December 26 incident with about 50 teens fighting each other, attacking shoppers and looting the largest US mall-‘Mall of America in Minnesota’ because someone falsely putting on FaceBook and Twitter that 2 popular rappers would be there; 30 officers had to respond and the mall was put on lockdown because of the frenzied fans. On January 1 a New York man threw Molotov cocktails setting fire to 4 Islamic centers.
We are out of control. I heard it said on the View in November that kids need to learn empathy using role reversal; the culture of sports and money has desensitized us when it comes to moral issues. I agree but our children are learning their bad behavior from the adults. And it doesn’t help that the Republican candidates smile when they attack one another and promote violations of our Constitution.
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