Gold Star Mothers For Peace: Please Allow Your Children to Rest in Peace

The Urban Grind comments on Religious Liberals and why they are the worst kind.

It has always bothered me when one group or another cloaks their political arguments in religious justifications. I totally respect that some people's faith leads them to certain beliefs, such as not wish to serve in the war. However, we have a separation of church and state and you will have to produce another argument if you want to influence policy, rather than just be a conscientious objector.

What alo upsets me in this case is that these people are making use of their dead adult children's memories for a cause that these independence adults may not have supported. If these children were conscientious objectors, they should not have been in the military. We have a volunteer military.

So, we have mother doing a terrible dishonor to the service and sacrifice her son gave to the country.

As the Urban Grind excerpts:

"We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people," she said, quoting a letter she sent to the White House. "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life," she said, as the audience of 200 people cheered.

Such violent imagery from one who wants to claim a religious justification for urging peace! If she is against the war, that is her business. If she wants to honor her son's death, however, this is just associating his name with more violent imagery and repudiating everything he fought for.

From another article this got me:

Quoting scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson suggested the nation is greedy and morally bankrupt and warned that America's fear of terrorism is excessive and unhealthy. Denouncing "fear that immobilizes, fear that causes you to lash out mindlessly, fear that prompts a nation to launch a preemptive strike against an imagined enemy, fear in excess," Hinson said, "Only God's love can bring that kind of fear under control.

Hmmm... fear that immobilizes... causes you to lash out mindlessly? Pot, kettle, black???

I disagree with her and her inflammatory language but I find it hard to hate her, she did after all lose her son. Heck, I find it hard to hate, in general. I don't know what she was like before but I guess she is probably wild with grief... that causes her to lash out mindlessly. I feel for her.

I wonder what her son would think, though, and if she realizes that she is dishonoring his service.