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Comments on: Coming out http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:51:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Paul http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-881 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:08:54 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-881 @sloisel: The initial consensus was indeed that this, no matter how brave, would be political suicide, but so far, by far most of the reactions he has received, were very positive. Even from people who don’t share his disbelief. Apparently there are still a lot of people who realize we live in a FREE country and that there IS a constitutional seperation of state and church, no matter how loudly a small group of zealots still yell that that seperation is a myth.

]]> By: sloisel http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-867 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:08:30 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-867 Paul, we have had a similar issue in Quebec. The leader of the PQ provincial party (for a long time, the number two party in Quebec), Andre Boisclair, has come out as gay, which by itself may have been enough to lose him the election, but also as a former cocaine user. My mother is sort of a weather vane for “popular political opinion” and she seems to think that either of those factors could have been the end of his campaign, and both together were simply too much.

S. Loisel

]]> By: Paul http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-713 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:57:34 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-713 @Deannie, absolutely!
Since I’m not a native English speaker I welcome, and even encourage, any corrections to my English.
It will help me to become a better English speaker and writer.
I think I found the offending ‘too’ and corrected it. To my, somewhat childish, defense I must say that that was not even a (human) typo! My (wireless) keyboard is broke(n?) and every now and then it spits out a whole line of repeated characters: I guess in the ‘too’ case this is what happened and I simply didn’t backspace far enough. But please, DO correct me on language issues: I appreciate that (but DO give me some time: I’m usually still correcting and revising a post or comment HOURS after I posted it).
I wasn’t even sure which was the more correct way of saying this:
“ALL HE DID WAS INDICATING ON A POLL..” or “ALL HE DID WAS INDICATE ON A POLL…” (STILL don’t know actually).

]]> By: deannie http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-711 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:41 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-711 Do I get to tease you about incorrect use of the word ‘too’? 😉

]]> By: Paul http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-708 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:23:09 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-708 @Deannie:
Thanks for that link, and although I clearly share some of the sentiments expressed there, I probably would have phrased certain remarks differently
😉
(At LEAST I would have spelled ‘atheist’ correctly. It’s probably second to ‘definitely’ (no ‘a’ in there!) in words that the majority of Americans can’t seem to get right. Receive (not recieve) and Israel (not Isreal) are in that list too, but I digress).

Anyway, I found a cartoon that relates nicely to recent polls finding that America is even more atheist-phobic than it is homophobic.

]]> By: deannie http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-705 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:28:31 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-705 I thought you would appreciate this post:

http://deusexmalcontent.blogspot.com/2007/03/stark-contrast.html

]]> By: Paul http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-703 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:12:21 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-703 @Injun: The really bad news is, that the CSA is not alone in their warped perception of persecution of Christianity in the US.

I only used them as an example.

Fairly recent polls have indicated that the majority of the American people would rather vote for a homosexual president than for an atheist one.

The majority of the people will NEVER vote for an atheist president JUST BECAUSE of his atheism and without taking any other factors into account.

Of course there are still plenty of people who don’t care or would even prefer an atheist, as you can see in this article: link.

But you can also see read there the ‘rationality’ of the ‘never: no way’ types, some are REAL brainiacs, like #2, Julie Haas, for instance: If fear and irrrationality go hand in hand you get gibberish nonsense like that!

]]> By: Injun http://claessen.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-702 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:30:42 +0000 http://paulclaessen.com/blog/?p=73#comment-702 The good news: the CSA member count amounts to only 0.04% of the US population. Surely there must be a lot more 50 “seniors” in the US, who hopefully think differently.

The bad news: if only 0.01% of those 120.000 members are real extremists, they could do a whole lot of damage to a society…

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