It's not clear exactly what the fruitcake reference means. Is he referring to the expression from my childhood, "nutty as a fruitcake?" Or is this a below-the-belt poke at gays, whom people like Dobson like to refer to as "fruits?"
Personally, I'm not a great fan of fruitcake. Well, the ones that are soaked in rum aren't bad, but I think it's the rum that I like and not the cake. On the other hand, fruitcake is a very solid, substantial cake, and it has great staying power. It will keep for a long time…which is what I like about the Constitution too. It has been with us since the very beginning of our nation, and it has served us well up to now.
As long as we can keep the rancid nuts like James Dobson out of our Constitution fruitcake, I think it will be just fine.
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Heck, Sandy, I almost never rate things so I'll toss in a 10 and we'll call it 20.
BTW, here's another article about the guy.
It always pained me to observe over the past 7.5 years that a misguided opinion leader like James Dobson was in a position that he could expect to get POTUS on the phone if he ever decided to dial. The prospect of that kind of access would send chills up my spine.
Now that we are s-o-o-n terminating our national mistake perhaps it is therapeutically helpful to just blurt this out loud. Whew!
Gary...thanks for posting the link to Cat's article. I left a comment over there where the atmosphere is more pro-Dobson/Christian Right Wing. I think you should all go over there and comment, and I hope they come over here. I left a link, so we'll see.
Sandy...I don't know about psychopants, but I'm willing to republish.
Ken...Dobson has waaay to much power and influence over the current administration. Things will be different under Obama.
Marcia...tell us more! Write an article about these people.
Dorothy...judging by the likes of Oral Roberts (some call him Rectal Roberts), Ted Haggard and the rest of these slimy bastards, if he isn't into rectal sextal, he's probably fondling foundlings.
I can't help Stephanie. Or Dobson.
what can you do? -here's a band that touts cannibalism (read: Holy Communion) while pointing the Holier-Than-Thou-Oh-Wretched-Heathens finger.
this is why the gods gave the rest of us the MIDDLE digit. -when faced with two "hard-cores", please recall Doc Holliday's storied approach:
"I have TWO guns... one fer EACH of ya."
this is cross-applicable.
if you forgive the pun.
The older I get and the more things I learn, the more I respect our constitution and am grateful to the people who gave us this valuable legacy.
"The article is great and early on the comments were also great because they showed the divide between the intelligent use of the brain and the purely brainless ... but I am sure that the brainless here would see it the opposite ... which may well be the greatest problem in our world today.
Jerry Kays, Jun 25, 2008, 1:31pm EDT ""
The early history of our nation is filled with Christians who owned slaves, and the people who opposed slavery were not all Christians.
Which reminds me of my oft-repeated saying:
Not all Christians are good people, nor are all good people Christians.
The incidence of divorce is highest in Bible-belt states. Christians have no monopoly on morals. I am not a Christian, but I believe I have lived as decent and moral a life as most Christians. Religion is not even the originator of our moral codes. I will recommend a book that I doubt you will read: The title is "The Science of Good and Evil," by Michael Shermer. He makes a convincing case that moral codes originated long before Christianity, in primitive hunter-gatherer groups. The Golden Rule was a necessary strategy to enhance the survival of those small bands of humans.
Religions came along later and codified those early rules of behaviour, and then governments organized them into systems of laws.
The morning after pill prevents a fertilized egg, called a zygote, from implanting in the wall of the uterus. Most fertilized eggs do not succeed in implanting and are excreted with other waste materials. Some succeed in implanting, but are then rejected and expelled in a miscarriage. Others impant themselves in the wrong place and a "tubal" or ectopic pregnancy results. The fetus never survives any of these natural "abortions." Are these all murder? The distinction between scraping a microscopic zygote off the wall of the uterus, or using a pill to prevent its implantation, and the very, very rare late-term abortions you refer to is immense. Surely you must realize that.
Here is a link to an article I wrote a few weeks ago on the the subject of conception, and when does a zygote become a person.