Comments on: Godly Grandstanding…

By: Marti Abernathey

Marti Abernathey — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:47:29 +0000

I agree with you that Bosma probably isn’t an anti-Semite… and my guess is that Danny and Co. aren’t too worried about Jesus or prayer… but they are worried about their next election.

Judge Hamilton’s ruling is simple and straight forward… if you read it. It’s too bad that far too many Hoosiers buy into the rhetoric (on both sides) but don’t actually make the effort to understand (or even read for that matter) the ruling itself.
http://www.insd.uscourts.gov/opinions/AO8130O2.pdf

I’m no attorney, but even I can understand this…

“There is ‘a crucial difference between government speech endorsing religion, which the Establishment Clause forbids, and private speech endorsing religion, which the Free Speech and Free
Exercise Clauses protect.’”

Bosma knows it, I know it, and you know it… trouble is, the electorate doesn’t.

BTW, I love your show on WXNT. It’s the only show on WXNT that I can stomach. Keep up the great work!!!

By: Abdul

Abdul — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:29:25 +0000

Stevie Wonder wouldn’t see it that way. I’ll have to talk about these guys on the air soon.

By: Gary Welsh

Gary Welsh — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:03:12 +0000

Abdul,

I thought you would get a kick out of reading what the AFA’s Micah Clark had to say about you at yesterday’s press conference. He writes: “One of the things you probably won’t hear in the media about this press conference is the banter back and forth between a fairly new Indianapolis talk show host and these three legislators. The liberal talk show host, who thinks quite a bit of himself, had his ears pinned back when Congressman Burton decided he had enough of his sniping at the bill.” http://www.afain.net/E-Alert/2006_02-22.html

You might not see it quite the same way.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:44:20 +0000

Amazing how the constitution (and 4th grade government class) gets forgotten in this “debate”….those who demand something be done by “activist” judges don’t seem to get it.

By: Gary Welsh

Gary Welsh — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:02:53 +0000

I knew you wouldn’t ask that kind of question. I’m just getting tired of hearing all of this proseletizing from total hypocrites.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:33:11 +0000

I made it a point to very respectful to the Congressmen and Senator. I may not agree with them, but I respect the institution. I did not go personal, but instead decided to let Burton’s words speak for themselves.

By: Gary Welsh

Gary Welsh — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:16:59 +0000

Abdul,

Are you sure you didn’t ask him how his bastard son was doing–the teen-aged boy he had never met at the time it was disclosed a few years ago who he had fathered during his days as a state legislator while having an extra-marital fling with a state employee? We understand that issue will get him worked into a lather.

By: paula

paula — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:02:12 +0000

Maybe the problem is we have too many who have been in “longer than we have been alive”

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:28:22 +0000

Thanks for getting up there and asking some tough questions. On the grandstanding commandment, I think we’ll have to settle for Matthew 6:5-8 –

And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.

And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.