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The Morning After Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics
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After a generation of progress in reducing large sources of industrial and municipal pollution and in improving management of public lands, today’s environmental conflicts are complex. They involve controlling pollution caused by farmers, small businesses, drivers of ageing cars, and homeowners, as well as minimizing ecological threats on private land. Remedies often lie in politically treacherous territory – persuading ordinary people to change their daily routines, rather than ordering big business to adopt new technology or government officials to manage land differently. This is an exploration of how policymakers, business executives and citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes maki… More >>
The Morning After Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics
The license is not the ceremony…
Same-Sex Marriage..
from a civil standpoint, I see it as a licensing issue.
The state licenses marriages.
That license gives legal standing
(in the eyes of the state)
to those who later engage in either a
civil or religious ceremony
that is the outward sign of their commitment
to go through life together.
The license is not the ceremony.
I’m convinced that people on either side of the issue
just don’t get that.
Fear and resentment find their homes
equally amongst those for and against the issue.
Although I hope the proponents of same-sex marriage
realize that marriage is a blue plate special – you get it all:
- loveless and loving
- unfaithful and faithful
- separated and united
- vicious divorces and amicable dissolutions
A lot of bad can happen
when the love is gone
and only the law remains.
best. christians and politics. quote. EVER.
from The Gospel-Driven Church‘s post I Pledge Allegiance to a King and a Kingdom
While I share the opinion that American evangelicalism is
committing adultery against the Groom by cheating with political power,
I very often find that many of the Christians decrying the affair, in reality,
would prefer the Church dally with a more left-leaning mistress.The world won’t be won to Jesus through universal health care
any more than it will through mandated prayer in schools.
start rant
Individuals can be politically active, and should be.
GOD, however, is neither a superdelegate nor a political party chaplain.
HE has HIS own agenda:
- it’s not soundbitten and sanitized.
- it’s not poll-produced or survey-driven.
- and most of all, it’s not your agenda.
end rant.