Soccer Mom: Unplugged

In response to the failure of advocacy groups and activist legislators to legalize gay marriage, one Mass. minister announced Sunday a boycott of all wedding services.  Episcopal Rev. Robert Hirschfield asked his congregation to participate in boycotting wedding services as a symbol of solidarity with the homosexual community.

So my guess is that as a symbol of solidarity with pro-choice feminists, all parents will be asked to literally sacrifice their children on the alter of the church.  Perhaps, congregants will be invited to jump the border into Mexico in an effort to empathize with the growing illegal immigrant population.  Sounds reasonable, right.  How about we all use the restrooms assigned to the opposite gender so that we can walk a mile in the shoes of our transgendered friends.

Or maybe, just maybe we can stop tiptoeing around the fact that some conditions, lifestyle choices, illegal acts can be understood without compromising our own beliefs or rewriting eternal laws.  Perhaps we can admit that compassion and respect for someone who chooses an alternative or illicit lifestyle does not extend to embracing and normalizing their choices only showing them the reasonable respect afforded all God's children merely by their divine ancestry.  How about that?

"BERLIN (Reuters) - German Catholic leaders launched legal steps on Tuesday to prevent youth music channel MTV from broadcasting a controversial cartoon series which depicts the Pope as a pogo-stick-riding maniac."

"The bishops also attacked the television channel for an advertising campaign which showed Jesus apparently getting down from the cross to sit in an armchair and watch the program."

No doubt there will be those who decry the attempts of these Bishops to maintain some small amount of respect for what they consider sacred.  They will be accused of trying to override free speech with religious totalitarianism, probably by the same liberal minds who were afraid to speak out about the Cartoon Crusade earlier this year. But, if this were Mohammad on a carousel and Allah kicking back with a cold brew in front of flat screen to watch "Jackass", there would be much more than a single article in Reuters "entertainment section".  There would also be firebombing, vandalism and calls for beheadings to contend with.