Friday Fatwa, a spiritual successor
May 23, 2008 – 6:03 pmI just finished upgrading my computer.
2 x GeForce 8800GT in SLI configuration
4gb DDR2 RAM
Yes.
Anyway, time for the Spiritual Successor to the Friday Fatwa. Once upon a time, this blog had a weekly feature where I would list whatever was irritating me over the last week and rant about it. In a sense, I’m doing the same thing here, but instead listing ridiculous letters to the editor and online comments on them in our two main local papers. I hope this will be a cathartic experience for all of us.
Let’s see now. We have the Sutherland think tank, the governor, the attorney general, the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune, all of the Hispanic organizations and Doug Wright of KSL Radio for amnesty. One group is missing, and that’s against amnesty: the American taxpaying citizen.
Earl Morgan
Santa Clara
The American taxpaying citizen? Isn’t that a little presumptiuous to say all of us agree with you? I, an American taxpayer, am probably more liberal than most on this issue. I say open the damn borders.
This is in reply to Romm Jackson Jr. (Readers’ Forum, May 15). Jackson claims that Darwinism is a theory that has been widely tested and that creationism is not provable. I must admit that creationism might not have scientific proof, but I would like to point out that neither does Darwinism. There has never been any concrete evidence of Darwinism.
Darwinism is the rebirth of medieval science when people believed that living things — like maggots — were born from nonliving things like rotten meat. These beliefs were put to rest after Louis Pasteur discovered that maggots came not from rotten meat but were attracted to it. Darwinism, on the other hand, believes that for living things to exist, they must have come from nonliving things. I guess the medieval scientists were right after all.
Tyler Thomas
South Weber
I’m not going to address this issue head on. Everyone who reads this knows that I believe in deity and evolution without perceiving any conflicts. I’m only listing this letter to show how an issue that was once never on the radar in Utah, one which was largely confined to the southern United States, has become a big debate here. I’m really in shock.
This is a comment from an article addressing California’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
Although I am opposed to gay marriage by my own principles I that is not what disturbs me about this whole issue. What bothers me is the fact that the people of California had their vote neutralized by activist judges. Again if a State chooses to pass legislation that allows for gay marriage that is the right of it’s citizens to choose. To have a vote nulified for political expediency is the death of democracy.
I’m willing to bet that if you polled people in California, they would overwhelmingly agree with the court’s decision. The fact that CA’s supreme court did something you disagree with does not signal the end of democracy.
2 Responses to “Friday Fatwa, a spiritual successor”
What does signal, maybe not the end, but the corruption of democracy is the simple fact that the State is in the marriage bed at all. Democracy, in the common and incorrect of it, as a synonym of liberty, would require the state to stay far away from the topic of who-can-marry-what (and for what cost).
Liberty dies when anyone is so presumptuous as to think that the government is an instrument to foist opinions on others. A) governments aren’t for that and b) that is what guns are for.
J.
By J. on May 29, 2008