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Saturday, July 20, 2013

U.S. Map: Firearm Death Rates /// The South Always Gets It Wrong

Gun culture: The number of murders from gun violence in all races
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The South Always Gets It Wrong

Every time Southerners agree on something, they get it wrong.

Slavery

Jim Crow

The Klan

Lynching

Anti-Catholicism

Religious Fundamentalism

Biblical literalism

Tobacco profiteering

Opposition to organized labor

Gun giddiness

Hate groups

Capital punishment

The belief that violence is a solution to every problem

Zealous war-making on any "enemy" Uncle Sam designates

The highest divorce rates in the nation

The worst health indicators in the nation

Staunchest opposition to The Affordable Care Act

Lousy educational systems

Incest and in-breeding. (Maybe that’s what’s wrong; Southerners have created a self-destructive gene pool…)

And now -- to make a "clean sweep" -- prohibition of same-sex marriage.

Somewhat surprisingly, Catholics "see the light" - approving same-sex marriage 51% to 47%.

Of course, Catholics live in blue states, which is to say they don't automatically see "red."

In any event…

Less than twenty five years from now, the Supreme Court will overturn all the Southern state 

ammendments, and not because gay marriage is moral or immoral but because proscription is 

unconstitutional and therefore anti-American.



"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton


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