The BML candidate interview invitation and schedule
Today will feature the last of our candidate interviews for the primary season. Ava Taylor and Keith Schachter will join us during the 7am and 8am hours, respectively. My column, detailing my votes in these and other races, will post around noon tomorrow here at BillMick.com.
The Paris Olympics certainly opened with a bang! Opening ceremony performances included a depiction thought to be mockery of the Last Supper brought outrage, discussion and debate. So much for leaving politics behind and making sport the great uniter. Oh, and it happened in the arena of competition, also.
It leads me to a conversation from the weekend. Our Saturday gathering landed on the division of politics and religion. A friend brought up the Republican National Convention. He did not see the event, watched none of it, he said, but was outraged that leaders of different faiths were apparently giving the invocation each day of the event. This was inappropriate because America is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles. He was very disparaging of faiths not his own as he derided the RNC for allowing this. That the Republicans are trying to be elected to manage a country that tolerates all faiths (or none) and that the expression of such tolerance at their big tent event was likely aimed at unifying voters of all faiths was completely lost on him. It led to about half an hour of discussion that was focused, not on political aims of the political event, but issues of faith. In other words, it was a distraction from the mission at hand.
It's funny to me how so-called conservatives, some of whom we have talked to in our candidate interviews, are quick to throw away the constitution or any understanding of it when it comes to how they would rule the country if they only could.
THE LINEUP
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