Let's start with his first claim about 'not being ashamed of admitting he's a Christian'. Alright, that's cool. There's nothing wrong with having your own religious views, knock yourself out, you live in a free country, believe what you want. I just want to take a minute to question your wording there: why are you saying it as though it's something most people are ashamed of, or as though it's something people might be shocked to hear you say? I mean, I don't have any statistics here, but I'm pretty confident in saying a LOT of Americans are some form of Christians, be it Catholic, Protestant, etc. I don't see how coming out and saying that Christianity is your thing is supposed to be shocking. Perhaps if he'd come on screen and said "I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a big supporter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster", people may have done a double take and questioned the man's sanity three seconds into the ad instead of only ten seconds into the ad. As it is, I really think religion should be left out of politics, but his announcing his Christianity is not all that shocking.
Next, I want to talk about the part of his ad that really hit a nerve with me; the part where he claimed that 'there's something wrong when gays can openly serve in the military...', ohh. Let's not open that can of worms with me, Mr. Perry. I, and many people I know, would have flayed you alive if we were in the room when you said that. I like to think that as a species, we've evolved over the years, past the point where we fear people who are different. We've pretty much gotten over the sexism thing, sure there's places in the world where apparently intellectual evolution has yet to reach, but we're doing rather well. I like to think the racism problem is going away in an absolutely swimming fashion, once again, exceptions and hiccups, time will tell. Is it not about time we get over the sexuality hump (yes that pun was intended, sue me why don'tcha... please don't, I have no money) and just get on with our lives? I will be the mature one here and not point out that Perry's jacket is shockingly similar to Heath Ledger's in Brokeback Mountain... oh wait, guess I'm not going to be the mature one then. But seriously, let's not even go there. People are FINALLY growing brains and starting to figure out that what you like to do behind closed doors is really not that big a deal. Unless you know, it's some screwed up stuff I may or may not know about growing up near Hicksville, Hickington; then that stuff is probably illegal. What I'm getting at is: get over it. Some people are straight, some are gay, some are asexual, some are bisexuel, the list just goes on. My point: let people be. You want to be allowed to celebrate Christmas openly? Let others be openly gay, regardless of what profession they desire to pursue. Point finale.
Now, to my main point: his strange idea about America having a "Christian heritage". Now, I'm not an American, but I am a history buff, especially when said history has to do with religion. I do seem to recall reading that the good ol' US of A happened to be a country founded on free religion, meaning it was founded with no particular religion in mind for the country's "main" religion. Seeing as the founders had varying religions themselves, they figured it would be best to found a country with no religion at all involved in the government. How did it come to be that religion, ie Christianity, has become so prominent in American politics? Emails were sent around about Obama being a devout Muslim, a false claim, seeing as Obama said himself he was not raised in a particularly religious household (and as an atheist, panromantic girl raised in a rather strictly Christian, pretty closed-minded household, I am VERY jealous), but my question for them was, who cares? Number one, the Muslim faith is not one of violence, it is a faith of peace, like Catholicism is supposed to be, yet extremists are capable of violence, and I would like to draw attention to something called the Crusades (if you don't know what that is, please look it up, it's seriously messed up and may change your mind about religion being a good thing in the world), but I will say nothing more about them, having exhausted my rant about them. (I was alone against a large grounp of people in a "debate", it was more a lynching, and I really don't want to start that again.) I can only hope that the world is beginning to produce people who aren't afraid to ask questions about the things they hear, and learn to think for themselves, and not do things simply because some ancient book (written by people, I'd like to point out, not faxed down from some dude on some astral plane) tells them to do them. Anyways, I seem to have strayed from my original point; my point is, Rick Perry, you're a closed-minded idiot. Please, stop. It appears you are so desperate for votes your clinging hopefully to religion in the hopes of grabbing the Evangelical vote. Who knows? It may work. I can only hope the rest of the country is completely stupid.
Here's one of those legitimately important topic I warned I might talk about sometimes. This guy rubbed me the wrong way, and after several Facebook and Twitter debates, I felt a need to really rant about it.
Let's freak out some homophobic Matt and Trey fans, why don't we?
I'd like to say that BASEketball, like pretty much every awesome thing, belongs to Matt and Trey and all those other people who matter in the movie. They aren't gay... but man do they act it well sometimes.
Cheers!
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