On freedom of speech and political correctness.

Recently we have all been victims of a social blitzkrieg. Every news channel is showing the
tale of Phil Robertson and the A&E Duck Dynasty media attack. We are being asked to choose
sides from a possibly homophobic religious rich man, to a freedom of speech hating   
corporation without a heart. In paraphrasing the bible Mr Robertson made it appear as if he
is comparing being gay with partaking of beastiality or perhaps being incredibly
promiscuous.  We suppose being brought up believing that homosexuality is a sin, could lead
one to assume that possibilty. On the other hand A&E is taking a clearly political stand and
putting Mr Robinson on "haitus." We have been perusing the message boards and chat rooms to
get a feel for what people are saying. First of all there seem to be a lot of angry people
out there. Discarding the nutcases.. (Of which there are plenty) we find that the majority
of rants were of a freedom of speech nature, (with a little dash of freedom of religion
thrown in for flavor). On the other side of the coin were people who were offended that
they could be lumped in with the rampant bestiality crowd. (Have you ever seen them, they
hang out at Walmart.) We could also understand why they could be a bit disconcerted. (Read
pissed off.) by this comparison. How do we feel about it. Mr Robertson may say whatever he
wishes and in a free country he has a right to his opinion. A&E, (a private company) has a
right to air whatever views they deem acceptable. It is not a free speech issue as the
religious right would have us belief. While Mr Robertson is entitled to his views, they are
based upon his own religious idea of right and wrong. And therefor not the law of the land.
Our personal feelings about homosexuality notwithstanding, we have no right to dictate to
other people what sort of relationships they have. It's none of our business. And our
opinion on the rightness or wrongness of homosexuality are meaningless.  However, recently
many states attempted to pass laws making it illegal for any one other than one man and one
woman to marry. These laws are based on their belief that it is a sin to commit such an act.
Based upon their religious ideals. These laws are wrong, we are not a theocracy, congress
can pass no laws establishing a religion. Therefore these laws are unconstitutional. Period.
Argument over. Oh we apologize for the quality of the paragraph and sentence structure of the blog, we copied it from notepad and things went haywire. And as we are running against the clock we had no time to correct it. Ciao for now.

Busy, Busy, Busy... and then some.

Well, Thanksgiving is over. Now the hectic run to Christmas begins. We have been very busy here at The Crazy. It's amazing how much stuff you can cram into one day if you stick at it hard enough and long enough.  Haven't had time to discuss philosophy, or read about recent N.A.S.A. achievements. Did read an article by some extremist conservative who was upset that Wal-mart was selling anti capitalist posters. I just have to shake my head at that. Isn't it the height of capitalism to sell an anti capitalist anything?  Some people are just idiots I guess. It amazes me how many people are down on Wal-mart. Saying they don't pay their employees enough. How much should you pay a stock boy? I have friends and relatives working there, and they seem to be making a fair wage. (They don't complain about it anyway.) This is just a quick note to let you know that we will be posting as we can this month. But I have to say we are VERY busy. Haven't had time to take a healthy crap. (Is it ok to discuss bowel movements on a private blog?) Does mentioning  the human bodily function lessen the gravitas of our posts? Anyway got to go. Driving through the (relatively mild) snowstorm for an appointment in Marquette. If we have time we will post about the horrors of Christmas shopping. After all we are going to WALMART. (Take that you conservative and liberal extremists!) Ciao for now.