Permalink Reply by pan on November 12, 2008 at 2:39pm
Millions of Americans live in a non-reality-based belief system informed by childish clichés - they can barely differentiate between lies and truth. We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and cliches. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
Warren publicly supported California Proposition 8 (2008), which successfully passed to amend the state constitution to preserve the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Shortly after the vote, Warren's Saddleback Church was targeted by pro-homosexual marriage protesters, in response to Warren's support of Prop 8, This directly contradicts Warren's claim that God wants you to do what you are wired to do.
Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.
"Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out."