I hate rednecks!!
Ok so here's a letter to the editor that was in Seventeen magazine:
"I was appalled at your 'If I Were President...' story in the June issue. First of all, gay marriage should not be legal! Marriage is meant only as a sacred procreative union between a man and a woman. Has marriage not been degraded enough already by the extremely high divorce rates today? And by the way, not only does the Bible forbid it, but the Constitution does not say anything about giving gays the right to marry. And then there was that 'pro-choice' girl--or should i say the 'pro-murder' advocate. How can anybody support the genocide of innocent human beings? What if your mother had chosen pro-choice? Oh, and women do have the 'right to choose'--to choose to abstain from premarital sex, you hypocritical idiots! And about the gun-control laws--are you insane? Just because someone owns a gun doesn't mean they have to shoot someone! And what about knives and rocks and virtually every other sharp, heavy, semi-dangerous object that could be used to kill somebody? Should we ban pencils? And what about that 200-year-old right to bear arms? And about global warming--it doesn't exist. And even if it did, this world clearly won't be here anymore anyway due to the decilne in moral standards as exhibited by these 'future presidents'. Seventeen, if this is the so-called 'voice of tomorrow,' there just might not be a tomorrow.
jill,16, pittsburgh, pa
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! IGNORANCE!!! RAR! That made me SO MAD. It had to be a joke or something. Seriously. The arguments were so juvenile and ignorant. I'm sorry, conservatives, but there are bad people and bad things in the world even if you try to deny it. I'm not even going to get started on gay marriage, you all know my beliefs on that. Just that her only argument is that "The Bible Says So", which directly contradicts the Separation of Church and State in the Constitution, which she also mentions. Ok, and the whole thing about pro-choice. I can never see myself getting an abortion, but you don't always have a choice. There's such a thing as RAPE, you ignorant redneck. It really makes no sense that the Republicans are anti-welfare and pro-life. What are single moms supposed to do?! Anyway, I think the gun control thing was the most ridiculous part. First of all, the right to bear arms IS 200 years old, but its original purpose was not to give an individual right, it was to allow militia men to have guns to defend their states. Guns aren't semi-dangerous, they're extremely dangerous. School shootings, anyone? Oh yeah, and just because you'd like to ignore environmental issues doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm sorry, hon, but global warming DOES EXIST! According to the EPA, the amount of carbon dioxide is set to double in the next 50 years as a result of our consumption of fossil fuels (OIL). The ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990. Water has been found at the North Pole, the world's tropical glaciers are in full retreat and mosquito-borne diseases are spreading out of the tropics. Not to mention air pollution. Anyhoo...
That's my liberal rant for the day.
But I did get a 6 in philosophy! Yay! I did well despite Gilmore's valiant efforts to make us all fail!
"I was appalled at your 'If I Were President...' story in the June issue. First of all, gay marriage should not be legal! Marriage is meant only as a sacred procreative union between a man and a woman. Has marriage not been degraded enough already by the extremely high divorce rates today? And by the way, not only does the Bible forbid it, but the Constitution does not say anything about giving gays the right to marry. And then there was that 'pro-choice' girl--or should i say the 'pro-murder' advocate. How can anybody support the genocide of innocent human beings? What if your mother had chosen pro-choice? Oh, and women do have the 'right to choose'--to choose to abstain from premarital sex, you hypocritical idiots! And about the gun-control laws--are you insane? Just because someone owns a gun doesn't mean they have to shoot someone! And what about knives and rocks and virtually every other sharp, heavy, semi-dangerous object that could be used to kill somebody? Should we ban pencils? And what about that 200-year-old right to bear arms? And about global warming--it doesn't exist. And even if it did, this world clearly won't be here anymore anyway due to the decilne in moral standards as exhibited by these 'future presidents'. Seventeen, if this is the so-called 'voice of tomorrow,' there just might not be a tomorrow.
jill,16, pittsburgh, pa
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! IGNORANCE!!! RAR! That made me SO MAD. It had to be a joke or something. Seriously. The arguments were so juvenile and ignorant. I'm sorry, conservatives, but there are bad people and bad things in the world even if you try to deny it. I'm not even going to get started on gay marriage, you all know my beliefs on that. Just that her only argument is that "The Bible Says So", which directly contradicts the Separation of Church and State in the Constitution, which she also mentions. Ok, and the whole thing about pro-choice. I can never see myself getting an abortion, but you don't always have a choice. There's such a thing as RAPE, you ignorant redneck. It really makes no sense that the Republicans are anti-welfare and pro-life. What are single moms supposed to do?! Anyway, I think the gun control thing was the most ridiculous part. First of all, the right to bear arms IS 200 years old, but its original purpose was not to give an individual right, it was to allow militia men to have guns to defend their states. Guns aren't semi-dangerous, they're extremely dangerous. School shootings, anyone? Oh yeah, and just because you'd like to ignore environmental issues doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm sorry, hon, but global warming DOES EXIST! According to the EPA, the amount of carbon dioxide is set to double in the next 50 years as a result of our consumption of fossil fuels (OIL). The ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990. Water has been found at the North Pole, the world's tropical glaciers are in full retreat and mosquito-borne diseases are spreading out of the tropics. Not to mention air pollution. Anyhoo...
That's my liberal rant for the day.
But I did get a 6 in philosophy! Yay! I did well despite Gilmore's valiant efforts to make us all fail!