Family Values

The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States' "illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.

Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed more than 1,700 American lives -- including the life of Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan.

Sheehan was one of more than a dozen activists who were scheduled to speak at yesterday's anti-war rally at the Red Mile, which was organized by the Clergy and Laity Network and co-sponsored by dozens of liberal religious organizations.

Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq.

"Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard
work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both,"
she said.

Since her son's death, Sheehan has made opposition to the Bush administration a full-time job.

Wow.

I have been thinking about family values and morality. How it doesn't seem to bother most republicans that we were told we went to war with Iraq for WMD and because Saddam was a threat. Neither was true. Nor does it bother them that there is an outbreak of cholera in Afghanistan. Darfur? No, they concern themselves with judicial appointments. Do they care that their president hasn't attended one funeral? No, what if gay people get married?

My morality means that you don't lie and get people killed in an unjustified war.
My morality means that you actually try to something about the genocide in Darfur.
My morality means that everyone is created equal, black, white, brown, gay, straight...everyone.

I really don't understand why "Christians" are more concerned about judicial appointments and gay marriage then they are about genocide. I can't get my head around that.

If their president really believed that abortion was murder wouldn't he stop it? Wouldn't he attend their rally and not phone it in? If their president really wants us to believe that we only went to Iraq to free the people then why isn't he doing anything about Darfur or Uzbekistan?