Decommissioning "Captain America" moniker

[Della]

The problem with the Civil Rights movement was that it didn’t stop at ending government discrimination whether that be discriminatory rules by the state or forced segregation. It allowed the government to abrogate a most intimate right, freedom of association. The government asserted the authority to delve into every human interaction. The same principles of this movement will now be used to force Christians to promote SSM. If the principle was right in the early Civil Rights movement it is right now. It was however a huge and costly mistake.

Yes. If the government had merely led the way of non-discrimination, such as outlawing discrimination in government run institutions, that would have been fine, I agree. But by passing laws concerning who private businesses may serve, it became overly intrusive and set the stage for every perverse group in the country to be granted protected status.

 

[johnnyc176]

. Ask anyone who lives overseas. They all kiss the ground when they get to the US. Why else do you think people have been flocking her for decades?

We can’t ask the 55,000,000 since Roe vs. Wade.

lifenews.com/2013/01/18/55772015-abortions-in-america-since-roe-vs-wade-in-1973/

Respect for those who died and fought for our freedoms is a very Catholic thing to do.
You can be angry with leadership all you want, but respect for the place that allows you to voice your discontent should be at least a given.

I certainly do have respect for all who served and died in service. I am a vet myself. But I am not an American Catholic. I am a Catholic who happens to be American.

I’m sure those that died in service of the Roman Empire were honored. But nobody remembers them now. At the judgement I don’t think one of the questions asked of us is if we served and fought for our country.

 

[lynnvinc]

The government itself is thoroughly pagan…

This is really interesting. When we went to DC and to the Capitol Building and saw all the gods and goddesses and statues of men and women I thought, “Wha??”

Then it occurred to me that the U.S. is an Enlightenment baby, born 1776 during the height of the Enlightenment and unlike Europe (with centuries and millennia of its crusted over traditional culture) the U.S. was a fresh Enlightenment experiment.

As we know the Enlightenment was not only anti-monarchy but also anti-Church – against deities (in which they did not believe) having any importance.

However, there is something in us really that seeks a deity (someone to thank, praise, idealize, and beseech for help). So they invented deities, like the (goddess) of freedom on the Capitol Dome, the Statue of Liberty gifted by France (another anti-monarchy, anti-Church society), and sort of made the fathers and mothers of our nation (George Washington, etc) to be like saint figures or demigods. We see them on our first stamps, etc. It is interesting that in France their first stamps featured Napoleon and Ceres (goddess of agriculture).

There is a lot more there at the Capitol that sort of seems like deification of important historical persons and created images of abstract concepts American’s cherish, mainly liberty.

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