----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Democracy - and am I the only Person here who is sick of Foolish Subject Titles?
> At 05:38 PM 5/6/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: > >If going to Bob Jones University, .... > > is required to win the Republican primary in South Carolina, .... > > Otherwise why go? > > Yeah, democracy's a real bitch. > > I don't know that it was required to win to go to Bob Jones University, but > the idea that Catholics should object to, say, Seventh Day Adventists > voting for the same candidates as we would - is, well, nothing short of > absurd. That really wasn't my point. Appealing to someone who is, at best, supports a position that is a slightly weaker version of the position of the KKK in the '20s, > Indeed, anybody who says otherwise doesn't understand the first thing about > democracy. After all, the alternative is a set of deep sectarian > divisions in which adherents of different religions do not mix and instead > stay loay solely to their own sectarian parties. Indeed, Tom Beck is > apparently expressing surprise that at least one Catholic has rejected this > disutopian alternative, and has instead chosen to be an active participant > in a pluralist democracy. There is nothing wrong with pluralism. There is something wrong with Bob Jones's position on the issues. Its clearly racist. Or, do you think there is nothing wrong with thinking blacks and whites shouldn't date? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
