Another exception to the rule.

[bladespark]

Wow, religion one day, politics the next.

Ordinarily I don't discuss politics in my lj. It tends to be counter-productive, because of the diversity of my friends. But in this one case I am going to make an exception, because this needs to be spread around as far as it possibly can, and it's something that anybody with any humanity, whatever their political alignment, should agree with.

I won't go into the details, I'll link to you a site that does a better job of explaining it than I can, but in short, the plans have been released, and the Ground Zero memorial where the Twin Towers stood is currently slated to be a heap of political propaganda, rather than a non-political tribute to the people who died there. And that's a travesty! Those deaths make that sacred ground, and nobody should be sermonizing for Conservatives OR for Liberals there!

http://www.takebackthememorial.org/

If you find you agree with what this site has to say, I encourage you to sign their petition, and to write somebody in congress about it. I never write my congressman, but I am writing a letter right now, because something has to be done about this!

Comments

[loweko.livejournal.com]

When I first ran into that story, I winced horribly. The idea is catastrophically bad one no matter how you look at it, and worse yet is simply tarnishing the reputation of liberals and academics in the US even further.

The petition won't do much, but the inevitable media uproar might.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I hope the media uproar really is inevitable. My dad is one of those people who follows politics pretty closely, and he actually hadn't heard the details of this. I hadn't heard a peep about it since they approved the building design itself. Maybe that's just because we live in Utah, but you'd think the news would have reached here in some format or other by now.