Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

    A church has been designed to reach the politically correct people of
    this day.  These are the hyperscrupulous folks who are offended by the
    mere hint of offending anyone.  These may seem stupid but they are
    "differently sensible" to be PC.
    
    The pastor's first challenge at the Theologically Correct Church was
    the Bible - that is a large stumbling block to his target audience.
    
    Which Bible would they use?  The "Holy Bible" offended the unholy 
    (differently holy).  The "Good News Bible" bothered the joy-challenged.
    The "Living Bible" insulted everyone's "breathing-impaired foreparents."
    
    He created a PC glossary for biblical items.
    
    Satan            - 	  a divinity-impaired being.
    Sin              - 	  non-traditional morality.
    Peter's denial   -	  allegience-impaired action.
    Anti-Christ      -    alternative leader.
    7 deadly sins    -	  7 life-challengin habits
    pride            - 	  state of being humility challenged
    greed            -	  materialistic nonadjustment
    anger            -	  momentary patience impairment
    adultery         -	  sexual exploration by the alternatively committed
    heretic          -	  the truth inconvenienced
    unbeliever       -    trust-impaired seeker
    backslidden      -    temporarily faith deficient
    spiritually dead -	  eternal-life challenged
    10 Commandments  -    10 Suggestions    

    Get that...Quotas for the cross.  That is extremely humerous. 
    Hey...let's give women equal time as savior...why not?
    
    Seriously though, I am becoming horizontally challenged and was
    wondering if anybody had any suggestions other than diet pills.
    
    -Jack

								STATUS:

Jocelyn Elders		Insufficiently Conservative PC		Discharged

Smithsonian
Enola Gay exhibit	Insufficiently Conservative PC		Squelched


PBS			Insufficiently Conservative PC		Threatened

re Note 1012.3 by CSC32::J_CHRISTIE:

        Yes, the only thing new about contemporary political
        correctness is that (some of) it is *liberal* -- "incorrect"
        ways of talking, thinking, and inquiring have *always* been
        the targets of traditionalists.

        Bob

re Note 1012.2 by AIMHI::JMARTIN:

>     Seriously though, I am becoming horizontally challenged and was
>     wondering if anybody had any suggestions other than diet pills.
  
        Abstinence?

        Bob

    Bob:
    
    I've lost the weight! :-)
    
    Jocelyn Elders crossed the line of wanting to teach morality in the
    schools which is something the ACLU has been lobbying against for
    years. 
    
    I don't understand this clearly but the Enola Gay issue at the
    Smithsonian.  Wasn't that riff over the simplifying of American intent
    in Japan and conveyed the message that the Japanese were victims and
    the Americans were brutal savages?
    
    Cutting of funding for PBS has been removed.  PBS continues however to
    villify white males and sometimes crosses the line with liberal
    viewing.  
    
    -Jack

    When all discussion degrades to the point of self-vicimization, where
    each side claims to be a victim of the other's political correctness
    assaults, we are left with not a discussion, but a series of whines.
    What I fear is all constructive discussion will be squelched, because
    we have chosen to dismiss all opposing views out of hand as being
    merely "politically correct" assertions on the part of the other side.

    The extremes of political correctness, whether liberal or conservative,
    are attempts to deny the reality of situations and a free forum for the
    exchange of ideas. It's purpose is to coerce consensus and not to
    promote discussion. 
    
    	Eric

Note 1012.6

MKOTS3::JMARTIN "You-Had-Forty-Years!!!"

>    Jocelyn Elders crossed the line of wanting to teach morality in the
>    schools which is something the ACLU has been lobbying against for
>    years.

I take it this is your interpretation of Elders' being a proponent of
making contraceptives available to students.

In an outspoken response to such accusations from what she termed the
'unChristian Right,' Elders said something amusingly close to your
current p_n ("You-Had-Forty-Years!!!").

Richard

    Well, Jocelyn was wrong.  The conservative movement was held at
    gunpoint for years and still is in the public schools.  The ACLU et al
    set the prescedent in the public school system throughout the last 30
    years and was wholeheartedly backed up by the teachers unions.  I don't
    think the local clergy would be allowed to go in there and give
    seminars of the value of abstinence!
    
    -Jack

    .9
    
    Well, I went to school.  Clergy frequently spoke in my classes,
    especially the ones conservatives called superfluous, like my
    Human Relations class in high school (Phoenix, Arizona).
    
    So I don't believe your hyperbole about being held at gunpoint.
    
    Besides, not all education takes place in school.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    Noted!

    .4 & .5
    
    Sometimes the things you say really tickle me, Bob!  Have you always
    been so understated?
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    .7
    
    Good point, Eric.  I'll try to watch myself.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    Any truth to the rumor I heard yesterday that our Republican-controlled
    Congress voted down the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    To my knowledge...no.  The only recent time I recall this happening is 
    when Bill Clinton willfully annulled the 4th ammendment by allowing
    illegal search and seizures in the housing projects of Chicago a few
    years back.  Something about it being for the good of the people or
    some such!
    
    -Jack

I think this happened when the Republicans introduced a bill to allow
evidence to be admissible in court even if it was obtained using a
defective search warrant, as long as the police acted in good faith
believing the warrant was valid.  The Democrats offered an an amendment to
substitute the bill with the text of the 4th Amendment, and the
Republicans voted down the amendment.

So in a sense you could say that the Republicans voted against the 4th
Amendment.

				-- Bob

.16 GRIM::MESSENGER "Bob Messenger"

Correct. Although the RICO laws have made the 4th amendment pretty much moot for
quite some time now.

Steve

    .16  Yes, that sounds like it.  Thanks.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard