[way ot] superbowl

[kentmclean at mindspring.com (Kent McLean)]

"Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This has nothing do to with war, nothing to do with hunger,
> it has to do with living within the rules of our societly,
> like it or not.

So you are saying the Lincoln was wrong in fighting the
Civil War? He should have accepted the rules of
society that permitted slavery? That Lincoln was wrong
in his Emancipation Proclamation, changing the rules of
society with which he could not live? And that the
Nineteenth Amendment is wrong, that we shouldn't have
changed society's rules and given women the right to vote?
Ask the mother of your son how she feels about that.

I don't have to ask where you stand on gay marriages.
In Massachusetts, on May 17th, gays will be allowed to
marry, and be allowed the same rights and privileges you
and your wife enjoy.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/05/officials_state_legislators_ponder_their_next_moves/
It is obvious that the state's Supreme Judicial Court doesn't
want live within the rules of society. Let me correct that:
doesn't live within the rules that *you* think society should
have.

Society changes. Mores change. Rules change. You have
the freedom to be outraged by that and to make your
displeasure known because you are an American. One
could also argue that JJ has the freedom to express herself,
even if  you find it offensive, also because she is an American.

If you can get enough people to agree with you, you can
elect officials who will outlaw such expressions. Maybe
they will even enact laws that women should show no skin
in public, such as it is the rule of society in Iraq.  Maybe
the women will band together and elect officials that will
enact laws that men must not show their breasts in public.
Or that men must be completely covered, too. It could
happen.  I hope it doesn't.

You also wrote:
> it's NOT what I want my 5-year old sitting next
> to me watching.  Had I been prepared for it, well,
> then I could have planned.

Yes, you could have played Mortal Kombat instead.

Peace,
Kent