The democratic party’s efforts to create a new subordination of women’s issues by making Obama the representative of every cause is a sham.

If you want to have your say send a BCC to this link expressing your outrage at the Ms. Mag cover: mkort@msmagazine.com, letterstotheeditor@msmagazine.com, contentsuggestions@msmagazine.com

http://usmilitary.about.com/od...../mcm94.htm

Read Vi. Read her lots. She knows what she’s doing. She’s an online, free, writing course.

Further if this progresses past his inauguration, and you are military, you could be charged with inciting disobedience. I don’t know the technical term, but I know the UCMJ good enough to know you would be on shaky ground posting that online.

Sis, Dr. Socks and others: I’m not disputing that Warren is physically large. It’s obvious. I’m simply saying it’s my opinion that a writer simply cannot state what they don’t know. I’m not defending Warren. I’m simply saying that he has a set of life experiences behind him that we don’t know and I would not presume to assert that he’s never been physically picked upon. It’s just that simple. Perhaps he hasn’t and likely his size has been an asset in that department. But I know from working in health care and in mental health, along with my own humbling life experience, that it’s truly amazing what various people have lived through that one might never have thought. None of us knows if Warren has ever been physically assaulted. Period. Therefore, we can’t asset it as a statement of fact that he’s never cowered, etc. That’s all.

One thing I’m used to, being former military, is people trying to use the good name and honor of military service members to further political agendas. It is ok if the military person themselves wants to contest something in a court of law, but trying to get military personnel to back something political, and convince them based on their strong patriotism is wrong.

Further you might put them at risk.

I don’t know if you are military yourself. If you are military yourself, I will ask you to reconsider. I am not saying this from any political standpoint. Because I read through it, and it is defamatory at worst, and the speculative nature of the “contest” is insubstantial at best.

Obama is going to be inaugurated on the 20th and then he will be our sitting President. You address this to all military members as a military contest, and, therefore, in an act of passionate patriotism, an unwitting young soldier could sign his name and identifying information, while on active duty, or as a veteran drawing benefits.

Because it is insubstantial, meaning there is no proof, a General could turn around and charge every single one of them with Subversion.

I would.

Revolting is for civilians; not military. If you had proof it would be another issue and this written contest would be much shorter.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/b.....-in-africa

Rick Warren’s Africa Problem

by Max Blumenthal

Team Obama likes to cite Warren’s work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives?

Once hailed by Time magazine as “America’s Pastor,” California mega-church leader and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren now finds himself on the defensive. President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Warren to deliver the inaugural prayer has generated intense scrutiny of the pastor’s beliefs on social issues, from his vocal support for Prop 8, a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in California, to his comparison of homosexuality to pedophilia, incest and bestiality. Many of Obama’s supporters have demanded that he withdraw the invitation.

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Warren’s allies have rolled back key elements of one of the continent’s most successful initiative, the so-called ABC program in Uganda. Stephen Lewis, the United Nations’ special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told the New York Times their activism is “resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred.”

I cannot stress to you enough that this is NOT about religion. It is about domestic violence. I am a Christian but I believe in looking critically at our leaders and calling them out when necessary. This is about Warren specifically, and the bad advice I feel he gives to battered women. The spotlight is on him because he was invited by Obama to be part of the inauguration. I think it is very appropriate that we use that spotlight to speak about domestic violence and the ways in which we disagree with his approach. I have no doubt that he has done wonderful things for AIDS and Africa, but we are a women’s rights organization and I don’t feel his helping one group excuses his hurting another. I want him to reconsider and consult some experts in domestic violence so he can offer responsible advice. Or don’t address it at all and leave it to the domestic violence experts to handle.
I repeat, this is about Domestic Violence, not religion.