home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!radian!markbr
- From: markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.223608.1298@radian.uucp>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:36:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172802.19739@linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov10.233618.25115@radian.uucp> <1992Nov13.123401.26068@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: usenet@radian.uucp (Usenet login for mail routing)
- Organization: n.o.y.b
- Lines: 62
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zippy.radian.com
-
- In article <1992Nov13.123401.26068@linus.mitre.org> heimberg@pacific.mitre.org (Jeff Heimberger) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.233618.25115@radian.uucp> markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- >>
- >>"I don't think that you can be an atheist and a patriotic American"
- >> - George Bush
- >>Proposition 9 (WA) & 2 (CO) were both set up by the xian funnymentalists that
- >>currently run the GOP.
- >>
- >> is that enough of a start?
- >
- >Yes, it is a good start, but it is somewhat less than a claim that
- >pagans around the country are being *systematically* denied their civil
- >rights because of their religion. I believe that there are isolated
- >incidents and that someone with adequate resources, communications,
- >"connections," should be keeping track of them. Perhaps "leaders" in
- >the pagan community could coordinate this (where is the UFP when you
- >need them? :-) ).
- >
- >So the funnymentalists are well-organized, well-monied, work together,
- >and are focussed on an objective... perhaps we can learn a lesson?
- >
- Jeff,
- I guess you weren't hanging around here a few months back, so I'll
- repeat a variation of what I said then: Do your employers know your
- religion? How about the folks you work with? Do you work in a small
- programming shop, or a regular co?
-
- I'm in Austin, at the bottom of the Bible Belt. There are a *few* folks
- at work I wouldn't be *too* uncomfortable mentioning this bunch to, but
- I make sure that my pentacle stays *under* my shirt. I do want to keep my
- job.
-
- I certainly would prefer that my ex not know, away off in VA. Yes, I pay
- my child support, but, knowing her, I would prefer that she not have
- something else to say when she gets a bug up her ass, and *certainly* not
- to be able to say to a court. I do *NOT* want to lose visitation/calling
- privileges.
-
- I certainly have some worry about people that live in the city. There's
- certainly enough elements that, if they knew, and were in the mood,
- would certainly make trouble. I don't want nuts with guns demonstrating
- their Xian charity & love with firepower aimed at our house.
-
- Go ahead. Walk into some town in the Bible Belt with a pentacle worn the
- way xians wear there symbols of deity-torture. See how fast trouble finds
- *you*.
-
- This doesn't qualify?
-
- >BB,
- >
- >Jeff H...
- >
- >==============================================================================
- > Jeff Heimberger If I want your opinion, I'll
- > heimberg@pacific.mitre.org read it in your entrails.
- >==============================================================================
-
- And you *asked* for my opinion. You want entrails? Sorry, I let you see my
- contrails (pun intended).
-
- mark
-