rickc rickc:
I would agree with what you are saying 100%.I do not need to ask Desertdude. I am a Christian.{not the best,I have a lot of explaining to do} I do not feel as though I have to apologize for every Christian that has blown up an abortion clinic,murdered an abortion Dr.,or protested a veterans funeral. I do not feel that every Catholic has to apologize for every deviant priest.Likewise I do not feel that every Muslim has to apologize for every hardliner in thier midst. That is my belief in this day and age.
I will admit that has not always been the case. After 911, I let emotion get the better of me. I wanted revenge.Thousands of innocent Muslims could have died,and I would not have cared. I would have appaulded. I DID applaud! I was wrong! Many millions of my Countrymen were wrong as well. Emotion is very powerful,and can do a lot of damage to even the best minds on the planet. I am light years from the best minds on the planet.
I cannot take back the wrong that has been done to thousands of Muslims in my country's name. For trying to get UBL and his enablers, I make no excuse. Good riddance and goodbye.!For Iraq, I wish we had a do over. Some calmer heads in my country {as well as other countries} called for restraint. I and most other hotheads would have none of it. Alas today many people are all paying the price for me and my ilks stubborness.The majority in both parties voted for the invasion of Iraq. I will admit my culpability. I was wrong. I will admit that.
However in this particular instance,....I am RIGHT! I have never made a negative statement about the gays. I knew several gays that wre serving in the military while I was in the serving in the military. I could have turned them into the authorities for discharge. Just my hearsay alone would have been enough to get them discharged. I have always tried to maintain a live and let live outlook on the world. Anyone willing to die for thier country is alright in my book. If you are looking for a GOP member to defend the gays, than I will be that voice!
That bit of honesty is rep worthy. Nice to see coming from a moderate Republican, mind, that bit of honesty will likely have your brushed with the 'liberal' paintbrush by some of our more frothy mouthed Glenn Beckian conservatives.
CKA Uber 
CKA Uber 
can you imagine what it would be like if he got a bunch of clerics from the other faiths and did a video of 'U can't touch this' or 'Pray'. Mullahs, Gurus, Rabbis and Priests all bustin moves together.
