TERRY MOSHER
KIM DAVIS
It shouldn’t be this complicated. Life that is. But I blame it on the information age we are in. Even the small things happening in life get blown up and pasted all over the world. And we take it all seriously.
Take the case of the football coach at Bremerton High School who is being investigated I believe by the school district for leading prayers after football games. Why all of a sudden is that an issue? Players and coaches have been saying prayers at games since I can remember, both in pro, college and high school.
If you as a parent don’t want your kid to participate in a quick prayer on the field after a game then ask him not to. There is no requirement he has to do so. And if doing so offends somebody’s sensitively or non-religious morality, that’s too bad. There is freedom in this country to not only believe in God but to disbelieve and what you do or do not do is nobody’s business as long as it’s not physically harmful.
On a personal note, I not only believe in God but I know God exists because of the things that have happened to me, which I have written on before. But I have no axe to grind if somebody does not believe. If your belief is to not believe, find. I can still be friends with you, if you want to be friends. And I have some friends who are not believers. But I have yet to hear one of them disapprove of kids gathering in the middle of a football field after a game and say a prayer. So to those who object, leave it alone, move on to something more important.
Then there is Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who continues to refuse to officially issue marriage licenses to a gay couple. She is being hypercritic to stand her ground on religious grounds because she already has thrown that away by marrying four times.
She reminds me of a friend I had that used Biblical phrases to defend political issues he could not defend with secular positions. He would end our friendly discussions by using the Word of God, which he said was the final arbitrator of all things.
No matter how wrong my friend was on a particular issue he would always claim victory because he stood with the Word of God. It would always end our discussion since I could not deflate the Bible.
Davis is standing behind her protector – God – and as long as she stands there nobody is going to dislodge her. That does not make her stand any more right than the claims of my friend in our discussions. They are both wrong, but only in a secular spotlight. Once Davis and my friend shine the light of God on the problem no amount of further discussion is going to dislodge them from their position.
But for my friend, and for Davis, they are wrong. We are living as humans in a human world and the solutions we are all looking for are human solutions that need human decisions. All the human decisions that can be made in the Davis case – the Supreme Court decision – have been made and no matter what Davis does or does not do she is in conflict with those human decisions and should be punished in human terms for violating those human decisions.
Davis’ validation will come when she is accepted back in God’s hands when she returns to the other side. I’m sure God will reward her for being compliant, but for now she is in the wrong and should either be fired or stand aside and allow gay couples to be afforded the rights that the highest human court in our land has decided they should have.
I have another friend who is vocal in his praise of Donald Trump and those who are against the Iran deal. He sounds more and more like Ted Cruz and the Tea Party and I have had to bite my tongue on those occasions we have debated issues on Facebook.
There come a time, though, that enough is enough. I’m getting tired of my friend and others calling President Obama a traitor for his foreign policy, claiming (wrongly) that he’s responsible for the rise of ISIS and selling the U.S. (and Israel) down the river in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
To hear my friends tell it, Obama is guilty of everything that has gone wrong the last seven years, including the shooting in Ferguson, and they probably believe he is a closet Muslin, presumably sent to the U.S. to weaken us to the point that we will be overrun by our enemies.
What my friend and the Tea Party forget is that it was Bush-Cheney who lied about the weapons of mass destruction and started the war with Iraq and that opened the door for various tribes to declare war on each other (and us), sending the Middle East into a chaos from which there seems to be no end until there is a total collapse of civilization.
I ask my friend and others what is the alternative to an agreement with Iran?
Think about it. Iran would be free to complete its nuclear program and it would force Israel to do the unthinkable and bomb Iran, starting who knows what. Iran is not Iraq, it is not Libya, it is a fledging power that will strike back, and strike back hard.
So to my friend and to Cruz and the Tea Party go at it. Defy the negotiated agreement, hit Iran with more sanctions, bomb it, get tough, be the bully and see what it brings.
While at it, vote for Trump, vote for him thousands of time, and see what that brings us. Trump is an idiot who has hit a soft part with many of my fellow Americans that have grown to dislike the government and fake politicians who promise the world and when they land in office give us nothing while taking a lot.
I dislike what has happened in our politics. I dislike that our country can now be purchased by the highest bidder, thanks to the Citizens United decision. I dislike that the rich get richer and the poor poorer and that most of our government representatives want to take away much of the support the government gives to the poor and middle class and give it to the wealthy.
I dislike politicians like Scott Walker whose biggest claim to running for president is that he stood up to unions and beat them, and then doesn’t tell you that he has run Wisconsin’s budget into the ground.
It’s becoming a mad, mad, mad world out there and The Donald has taken advantage by feeding on that anger to become popular. We will see Wednesday (September 16) when he is front and center in the second Republican debate how well he stands up to those running against him and see if they can expose the Teflon front he is coated with and scratch under that surface to find the real Trump, who I suspect is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
That’s enough for today. My headache is almost gone. Thanks for listening.
Be well pal.
Be careful out there.
Have a great day.
You are loved.