Text 9109, 73 rader
Skriven 2005-02-14 23:25:54 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9099 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: Bible lessons for public students
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Ross Cassell -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 RC> Hello Gary!

 RC> 14 Feb 05 17:53, you wrote to LESLIE BLITZER:

 LB>>> Simply astounding!  But then, Virginia has regressed from the
 LB>>> high water days of Madison, Monroe and Jefferson and this report
 LB>>> is but one marker of that decline.

 RC> Gary, first off I find it odd that Leslie Blitzer being so new to these
 RC> echoes has all the familiarity with the other posters as if to be "old
 RC> hand" at it..

Yeah, I noticed that with the post to John Hull.


 GB>> Virginia has always been this way since I can remember. After all, we
 GB>> have Pat and Jerry and no I am not talking about the ice cream guys.

 GB>> VA is conservative, seemingly full of fundamentalism.

 GB>> We actually had a good school system when I was a kid, multicultural
 GB>> even. We were taught about all religions. Then the atheists stepped up
 GB>> and the Baptists fought back and there you have it.

 GB>> I like VA, but it has its problems.

 RC> I lived in Virginia for 24 years in Fairfax County, just 10 miles west
 RC> of DC.

 RC> Virginia has it all..

The liberal section of the state to be sure. Come just a tad south.

Then you get people of color, in this case, a half Lebanese, half Irish girl
being told to go home and wash the color from her skin so she may get into
heaven when she dies.


 RC> All four seasons

My area gets all 4 seasons each month.<g>


 RC> The mountains and the beach

 RC> and has its left and right wing areas, just like every other state.

By far and away its a very conservative state, and I am not talking about
politics as much as attitudes.

Sodomy was illegal between married, consenting, heterosexual people, not to
mention gays. Sodomy also in VA was classified as oral sex. I think I heard
that law was finally stricken from the books last year.

It was only used to take kids away from gay parents, harass gays and as a means
for cops to gain entry into a suspect hetero home if they could find no other
way. Its being taken off the books was fought tooth and nail until very recent
years.

Oddly enough, its illegal in VA and I think still is to have sex out of
marriage. Of course its rarely enforced, but careful attorneys in divorce cases
still counsel their clients to admit nothing, just in case they get a wacky
judge.

Richmond, where I live is odd indeed. In the last election it went for Kerry,
of course being a majority population of minorities. But the day to day stuff
is quite conservative.

With the massive influx of northerners, this is changing, for the worse.

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