Bishop Mike, Kim & David, what a great article. It is a different world. Years ago, fans opened a football game with prayer. Now we don’t; but the band and the dance line do a routine to “Low Rider” by Santana which is about a drug dealer and little is said. And that’s not even the iceberg’s tip!
What needs to be pointed out here is that Obama and Palin are being applauded for their ‘extraordinary’ responses to this terrible thing when what they said should not have to have been said because it remained the standard by which we live.
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January 14, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Bishop Mike, Kim & David, what a great article. It is a different world. Years ago, fans opened a football game with prayer. Now we don’t; but the band and the dance line do a routine to “Low Rider” by Santana which is about a drug dealer and little is said. And that’s not even the iceberg’s tip!
What needs to be pointed out here is that Obama and Palin are being applauded for their ‘extraordinary’ responses to this terrible thing when what they said should not have to have been said because it remained the standard by which we live.
If not me; who? If not now; when?
Gigee