ok one more thing

for a long time now i've been considering paying some attention to some arguments on the right. for example, it occurred to me that maybe if i want to understand WHAT is the objective in iraq, WHAT it means to actually "win" the war, i should look on the right because I can't make any sense of anything the president says; perhaps people on the right could interpret it for me.

and then i came to this:

If this trend continues, employees who believe in God, marriage and traditional morality
eventually will face discrimination. Wal-Mart suppliers owned by people who hold traditional
values will face loss of contracts if they don’t endorse immoral behavior.

i happened upon this website kind of by chance, and followed the links to this article/position statement/whatever it is to see what are the arguments against same-sex marriage (because i don't get it).

the above quote illustrates a philosophy/law i'd long forgotten since leaving the cult behind: whoever isn't for us is against us.

I really don't believe that people who endorse certain values will be discriminated against. we have laws against discrimination that extend to protecting people against discrimination based on creed or sexual orientation. also, wal-mart is a corporation; it is a body that bends only to one creed: profit. wal-mart could care less whether someone can marry his boyfriend, so long as they can attract their money.

further, the author states that companies that don't "endorse immoral behavior" would face loss of contracts. back to the corporation issue - wal-mart will endorse anybody behavior that will bring more dollars. now let me get into this for-us-or-against-us mentality. wal-mart could care less, so therefore wal-mart is not FOR keeping marriage coed. since whoever is not for this group is against them, wal-mart is AGAINST groups that advocate heterosexual-only "family values." so i think that's how this group came to the conclusion that wal-mart would require endorsement of "immoral behavior" from the companies with which it does business.