[DMCForum] Re: A public apology to Marc Levy

["Flavia" <frvianna@xxxxxxxxx>]

After reading this, I have to say that there are more things that we 
agree on. The map that Marc posted, I saw more as a joke than a 
racist thing.
And Christimas to me is a time to eat as much as I eat on 
Thanksgiving and exchange presents, yes, it's purely commercial and I 
like it because it's a holiday :) Nothing wrong with most of the 
songs, Rudolph is not a religious reindeer!
But when I used to live in Oklahoma, most of my friends were jewish 
and one of them worked at the mall. Of course I spent the evening of 
Dec 24 with them because everyone else was praying while we played 
video games and ate :) But she was upset because when the store she 
worked at was about to close, her manager went to the mic and said: " 
all customers, the mall will close in 30 min, bla, bla, bla and merry 
christmas" Then, Jessica, my friend, told her she should be 
politically correct and say "happy holidays", according to her, the 
manager didn't take that too well. BTW, Jessica, is originally from 
Long Island, NY. What I mean by that, is that around the Northeast, 
things aren't so bad for non-christians, the south is 
more "dominated" by religion.
Homo-familial, LOL well, as you or someone else mentioned before, the 
problem is that if a brother and sister have a child, that child have 
great chances of having birth defects, so there is a scientific 
explantion to incest. As for gays, they will never be able to have a 
child of their own, their only solution is adopting, and I believe 
that many children out there would like to be adopted. I don't see 
anything wrong with that. It's weird, but they don't harm anyone.

Flavia

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Once again I have apparently misquoted you so I apologize to people 
here and 
> now, and 25 years from now.
> 
> I am obviously mis-understanding what you are trying to convey and 
I 
> apologize.
> 
> I'm really sorry that you feel that that map accurately represents 
our nation. I 
> don't think you and Flavia are wrong for being agnostic. I truly 
understand that 
> you are sick of people preaching to you. I don't like it when JW's 
come 
> banging on my door either. I just feel that you swing too far the 
other way, by 
> painting the rest of the US with such a broad paintbrush. I also 
feel that you cry 
> a little too loudly when you complain of being bombarded with 
religious music 
> during the holidays. No one is preaching to you there, it's just 
music out in 
> public. What does Jingle Bells have to do with any religion? Would 
you outlaw 
> the ringing of bells next because sometimes they have a religious 
connotation 
> and you feel you shouldn't have to hide in your home to avoid them? 
Besides, 
> our holidays have losts nearly all of their religious connotations 
due to 
> commercialism. Easter is more closely tied to the Easter bunny than 
to 
> Christ's death. Halloween (all Hallow's Eve) is now more closely 
tied to pagan 
> rituals and candy, and Xmas is more closely tied to toys and a fat 
man in a red 
> suit than to the birth of Christ.
> 
> Our society is both spiritual and secular and we need to learn to 
live with each 
> other.
> 
>  There were enough other issues at stake to make someone vote for 
Bush 
> besides religion and I'm one of them. I keep saying that religion 
isn't playing a 
> large part in my life right now and I keep getting lumped in with 
Jerry Falwell by 
> some people anyway.
> 
> And if you think I'm misquoting you here, I suggest you review the 
map you 
> just posted. Those kind of broad, sweeping, DISCRIMINATORY 
statements are 
> beneath a man of your education. The map you posted was quite the 
same as 
> me claiming that "all blacks are good at sports" or "all Muslims 
beat their 
> wives". What if I posted a map of the US and Asia and it was 
labled "Good" 
> and "Evil"? You'd be the first one in my face calling me a racist.
> 
> The hypocrisy in here is comical. I am STILL waiting for Jack (or 
anyone) to 
> explain how he came to the purely arbitrary determination that homo-
familial 
> marriages between brothers and sisters are "bad" or "wierd" and 
will never be 
> accepted by society considering that his only criteria for "good" 
or "bad" 
> seems to be whether or not it harms him directly, or whether or not 
it's kept in 
> the privacy of one's own bedroom.
> 
> I love my new euphemism. "Homo-familial". Incest has such an ugly, 
> backwards connotation to it. I certainly wouldn't want to offend 
anyone.
> 
> Rich

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