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Do Us All a Service and Shut the Hell Up

December 19th, 2006

Mitt Romney: 
I don’t think there’s any conflict between feeling that all people deserve respect and tolerance and that discrimination is wrong and a belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Kathryn Jean Lopez of The Corner:
Romney would do us all a service if he could get us to a point where a statement like that . . . does not make news because it is a given. To take us to a place where those who support protecting traditional marriage are not easily and routinely dismissed in polite society as homophobic would be a great milestone for civil society.

I dunno. I don’t really think there is a place where being a homophobe doesn’t make you homophobic. Instead, maybe Mitt Romney can take us to a place where he doesn’t discriminate against homosexuals. Maybe he could send Kathryn Jean Lopez a postcard from that place.

It would do us all a service.

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Christmas Lyric of the Day

December 19th, 2006

Joy to the World is the most fun of the traditional carols. You have to have a soft spot for a song that is so over the top in its adoration for its subject.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

Categories: Holiday, Xmas Lyric of the Day | 4 Comments