Now it is insensitive to honor someone by naming a park after them...
A recently publicized peice on Foxnews.com caught my eye today. Come on people - this is getting ridiculous
FROM FOXNEWS.COM 6/13/05....
The ACLU is objecting to plans by Harris County officials in Texas to name a new park after the late John Paul II, according to the Houston Chronicle, claiming that to do so would be insensitive to other faiths.
County Commissioner Steve Radack wants to build an 865-acre park in his district near Houston and name it in honor of the late pontiff.
But ACLU officials questioned whether taxpayer money should be used to promote a particular faith.
"I would not want to name some park the Dalai Lama Park because some people might not be Buddhists," said Randall Kallinen, president of the ACLU Houston chapter. "It is insensitive to other religions."
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Frankly people have got to get off this insensitivity kick. I've been a "Mic" for 36 years! - Its one thing to be sensitive to prejudicial events - its another to take it way to far and not do or say anything at all at the risk of offending the "Squirel worshipers" among us!
Jun 13, 2005
This is getting ludiculous
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If you're going to call someone a squirrel worshipper, at least spell it correctly.
I'm OFFENDED! - I'm a follower of 'Squirel" and we DON'T like being associated with them furry- tailed things!
What in the heck is a squirrel worshipper? That's a first for me!
LOL
As I grew up, I had a fairly normal religious life. My family was Catholic and I attended Catholic school, having the requisite "attempted fondling" by a parish priest (now bounced from the priesthood).
Surprisingly, one day, at age 13, I was followed home from school by a squirrel. Realizing that this was a sign from God, I immediately built a little home for this squirrel in my room (unbeknownst to my parents). I began worshipping the squirrel and developed an entire catechism around my squirrel worship that included rites and ceremonies, including making a little crown for the squirrel from aluminum foil and my sister's bead collection.
This went on for two years until one day my mother discovered my squirrel god in the back of my closet and called an exterminator to remove the creature. I was at school that day and came home to find my Lord and Savior being dragged down the front steps with a little noose around his neck by a man with boils and warts on his face (a result of working with the deadly chemicals of extermination, no doubt).
Traumatized? You bet.
My life of faith bounced around as a result of that experience. I did not return to squirrel worship... or Catholicism, for that matter. Instead, I went on a soul-searching journey that included Paganism (worhip of various inert objects, including, in my case, a carved "pirate" coconut head that a friend had picked up at a souvenir shop in Florida), Buddhism, Taoism, Soupism (worship of soup -- I was hooked on split pea with ham), Judaism (some things a guy does in a desperate attempt to get laid, though I later wed a different Jewish woman), Sunism (not a good religion for a lily-white Irish guy with a high risk of developing melanoma), Islam, Hinduism, Rastafarianism (can't remmeber a thing from that one), Sleepism (loved that one -- may revisit it one day), and, finally, Bikism (I ride my bike everywhere, totalling a couple of hundred miles a week).
I'm still on a spiritual quest. Recently, during summer months, I practice Bell's Oberonism, the worship of Kalamazoo Brewing Company's summer brew, Bell's Oberon Ale. If you love beer, you'd worship this gem, too.
So my religious experience has spanned the globe, so to speak.
I'm looking forward to my next adopted religion. Not sure what it'll be, but I'm thinking if things keep going the way they are under the current regime, I may start looking into Gettingthefuckouttahereism. But, then, I couldn't get Bell's Oberon... though I could still ride a bike everywhere.
I hope this diary spurs some deep thought -- some reflection -- for a few folks here. I know it did for me.
Thank you for your understanding and interest. And keep in mind that if you find yourself sailing down a long tunnel toward a bright, white light, you may be experiencing rebirth.
Fox News... fair and ballanced my a$$.
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL - Now that's what I call a sense of humor! Amen IWAS!
Really though... This is crazy - I guess renaming Dulles...Reagan National should have offended Moderate Democrats from California right...isn't he their patron saint? - We have got to get off this oh I'm offended by that comment crap - just because people take a stand against a particular position doesn't make that position a defamation. Not everything is a racial slur and not everything has to represent some sinister purpose.
You people who knock FoxNews and then worship CNN and CBS are unbelievable...
OK - The following cities will be renamed because they are offensive to religions across the country:
St. Louis, St. Paul, .....
BTW - Squirrel Worshiper: I clicked through to that Diary site you have linked and found myself in Liberal HELL...Your squirrel post was funny - your friends there are just sad
OH that was you? - Very funny stuff!
Squirrel Worshipers: Through tail alone are we saved! :-)
Happy Days MV - Have to have some fun sometimes right?
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