JayG:What the heck we 'suppos'd to do ya moron? D-Day: War's over, man. Deval dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the going gets tough . . . the tough get going. Who's with me? Let's Go! Come on! AAAAEEEEEGGGHHHH!! [Bluto runs out of the room alone; then returns] What the ____ happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons. But that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
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"The question for those elected officials who opposed allowing the marriage amendment to be voted on by the people is: do we live in a country where people are free to vote their conscience or are we controlled by what is viewed as politically correct and by powerful special interest groups?"
- Bishops
It remains to be seen whether this plays out like Animal House or Animal Farm.
Good schtick Jay....haha
A friend told me.
We are a resurrection people, pilgrims, this is not our home..... and we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and the crown that is to come. We are a people of hope.
Sounds like you've got a good friend Renee. I trust all is well up on the hill.
Great... T-Ball and Homemade Strawberry Shortcake on a Father's Day weekend.
Happy Father's Day
We are a people of hope indeed. And Jesus assured us that the gates of hell would never prevail against the Church. But He never promised us that the faith wouldn't die out in certain areas. We have no guarantee that Catholicism in America will survive. All the more reason to pray and work.
Separation of church and state?
http://lasalettejourney.
blogspot.com/2007/06/david-
carlin-is-lifelong-democrat.html
Marie, I've heard about that book "Can a Catholic be..." regarding how the democratic party has turned their back on pretty much everyone.
Another book that is coming out is from Brad Wilcox.
Lowell being an urban setting with many minorities I look forward to Brad Wilcox’s new book.
http://familyscholars.org/?p=6420
"In Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, I find that churchgoing dads spend more time with their children, praise and hug their children more often, spend more time socializing with their wives, and are more emotionally engaged with their wives. So my earlier work indicates that religion domesticates men, turning their hearts and minds to the welfare of their wife and children.
But this earlier work is focused largely on white, middle-class families. In the last two years, I have turned my attention to the impact of religion on African American and Latino families. I have done so in large part because black and Latino families have been hit particularly hard by our nation’s recent retreat from marriage — evidenced in high rates of divorce, cohabitation, and single parenthood. Thus, I hope to find out how religion is or is not helping to strengthen marriage and family life in minority communities.
What I have found so far is that religious attendance does promote higher rates of marriage among blacks and Latinos. I have also found that religion fosters better relationships among married and unmarried black and Latino couples in America. Most interestingly, men’s attendance is more predictive of marriage and relationship quality than is women’s attendance. So across racial and ethnic lines, religion matters in making men better husbands and fathers."
Renee, I will have to check out that work. You mentioned that "black and Latino families have been hit particularly hard by our nation’s recent retreat from marriage — evidenced in high rates of divorce, cohabitation, and single parenthood.."
I would have to agree with you. I spoke with Paul Melanson (who used to teach English as a second language to Cambodians and Laotians living in the Lowell area) and he told me that these asian communities remain close to the Church and so tend to have stronger families. He attributes this to the fact that they haven't been in America as long as African-Americans and Hispanics generally speaking.
It is his contention that first generation immigrants tend to be very faithful to the Church whereas their children or their grandchildren tend to become materialistic and their faith-life is deeply affected by our materialistic/hedonistic culture.
He sums it up with the words of Jesus: "Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:23).
Fr. Peyton said it best, "The family that prays together stays together."
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