Comments on: Ex-Gay Fugitive’s Friend Compares Herself to Harriet Tubman

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[...] While we don’t know whether or not Wall was involved in Miller’s escape — the time she compared herself to Harriet Tubman in her “fight for the children” raised my eyebrows a bit — [...]

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By: Michael Airhart

Michael Airhart — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:18:17 +0000

Unfortunately, with most of the nation’s school textbook curricula being written by fundamentalist education boards in Texas, compulsory public schooling under current circumstances might just reinforce popular contempt for the Constitution and idolatry toward what Southern Baptists falsely claim is the Bible.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:17:30 +0000

Compulsory nation-wide public schooling, and no other, using a tested nation-wide curriculum from the ages of 4 to 16. No-one can go on to recognised further education without passing. Parents can instruct their own personal crap at home to their own children, out of hours.

You asked for an idea. You didn’t ask for something achievable. :)

By: Frijondi

Frijondi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:38:32 +0000

Anyone have any ideas about how to get that 30% to reintegrate with the rest of the country?

Seriously. I don’t care whether they become liberals or not, they just need to have a reality-based understanding of their rights and responsibilities as US citizens.

Until that happens, every election cycle is going to be dangerous. I don’t quite see President Palin, but there’s Huckabee, Gingrich, Tancredo, Brownback, Jindal, and God knows who else waiting in the wings.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:17:55 +0000

She might have a point if she was actually helping enslaved lesbians escape from Vermont to Virginia.

But she isn’t. And she wouldn’t. So she doesn’t have a point.

If, if… just assuming an Alice In Wonderland World… Virginia was to categorically offer ‘life time refuge’ for the fugitive Miller tomorrow… I can bet my bottom dollar that Miller would appear at a celebration service at Thomas Roads that very day.

And an unremarkable, obvious, list of people would be boasting they knew where she was all along.

They live in a parallel Universe.

That is manageable for a hippie commune of 12 people for 2 years, but not when it involves 30% of the country for 3 decades.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:34:44 +0000

Since Linda Wall invokes the heroism of a woman who actually understood her own oppression and fought against it (instead of internalizing it and perpetrating it against others), perhaps a quote (possibly mis)attributed to Harriet Tubman is in order:

When asked how she managed to save hundreds of enslaved people through the Underground Railroad, Tubman replied: “I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.”

This quote comes from this (secondary) source:
Alonford James Robinson Jr. _Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience_. 1999.

By: Wayne Besen

Wayne Besen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:09:34 +0000

These people seem deeply unhappy and disturbed. They want to give their empty lives meaning by becoming “patriots” or “martyrs”.

However, they are just the same miserable, soulless human beings who attempt to elevate themselves thorough their fantastical religious fantasies and grandiose visions as four-star generals in God’s Holy Army.

In reality, we really have a kidnapper and those who are aiding and abetting the common criminal.

Both the child thief and all accomplices deserve to do hard time behind bars for their illegal activity and moral malfeasance.