i don't know if i'm just being a paranoid liberal democrat, but, it just seems like it's bad doctrine of faith to be preaching politics and making politics in mass prayer. i was at church, and the pastor started prayer talking about election week and made a comment that things may not have gone so well in california (the re-election of gov. grey davis, a democrat), but saying that at least the rest of the country is going in the right direction (the repulican control of congress), and the hopefully new supreme court justices will be appointed to revert the country to a "christian lifestyle" (an implication of overturning the roe v. wade decision)...now, i sat in church, and i was offended as ever. as a pro-choice democrat, i felt like he was pointing the holy finger at me, and saying that my ways are the spawn of the devil...

i can respect the fact that my pastor may be a republican, it's kind of unavoidable living in orange county...but, the fact is...it just seems like bad doctrine to be preaching politics in a church setting....i'm a strong believer in separation of church and state. one should not be advocating politics in a religious setting.

i'll go back to that church next week, the pastor gets one more chance, but...he's on his last chance, there are other churches i can go to where i won't feel persecuted for my political beliefs.

it's such bullshit...why did i have to get harder to be a minority democratic artist in orange county...why'd it have to happen in church? it really pisses me off.

okay...more on the persecution thing. there are a couple girls at my work who have piercings right below their bottom lip. every now and then, there will be an insensitive guest who comes in, all pissed off because the piercing offends them...and they complain to a manager about it. freakin' narrow minded ass-holes. saying that we shouldn't hire people with piercings is like saying we shouldn't hire tall, white men with shaved heads because it'll look like we support white supremacy, or that we shouldn't hire openly gay people, or that we shouldn't hire ( whatever group that you want to put in here) because of ( insert asanine reason here).

is it really your business to be commenting on it? is it your piercing? is this what you want to teach your children? to be so socially intolerant, to shun away those who are different? if so, in this case, you're no better than the run of the mill racist, or homophobe, or whatever...

let us not pass judgement on others, that's God's job.