Daily Breakfast 549 – The Sniffles
In this show: feedback from a confirmation candidate; new TV series; allergies and the sniffles; Google takes a stand on gay marriage; the return of Healthy Catholic; the culture of coffee; my new radio show; Bill Gates and unhappy customers.
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I am not a coffee drinker at all, I can’t stand the taste in any form, including cake and ice cream, and I don’t even like the smell. However, I also know that when I go into Starbucks to get my occasional chocolate Frappucino, I see about eight different blends of coffee. Is it possible that you just tried some bitter blends and that there could be some that are more suited to your tastes?
Also, another thought about the dilution of the American coffee… could it be that Americans are accustomed to drinking enormous volumes of their favorite beverages, having had Big Gulps and SuperSize 44 ounce soft drinks become the norm over the last 20 years or so? Maybe the dilution is just a way to drink 16 or 20 ounces of coffee that won’t send your heart rate over 200 bpm?
Proposition 8 is about taking away the newly awarded civil rights of same sex couples to benefit from the many legal and financial advantages of being legally married. Google is not necessarily supporting same sex marriage by being against Prop 8, but they are coming out against what they see as discrimination.
When the Church takes a stand against same sex marriage, it is, in my opinion, crossing the line between religion and politics and advocating discrimination. The Church has every right to determine who it will and will not bless with the sacrament of marriage, but the legal union of 2 adult human beings is not under their jurisdiction.
Pat, if I understand you correctly then Proposition 8 is about civil unions and Not about gay marraige?
If so then there is a misunderstanding of this issue.
In multiple polls and studies the american public is overwhelming ly for the legal rights of civil unions.
What we need to keep in mind is that civil unions legal rights & gay marraige are two seperate issues.
When you say the Church advocates discrimination against same sex “marriage,” then you are really headed down a slippery slope. Using your logic, the Church therefore advocates discrimination against adulterers. And polygamists. Fornicators. Further down the slope, we get to pedophiles…
I am fully agreeing with you on your assessment of Leo Laporte. His enthusiasm and energy is fantastic as is his ability to create a community around his podcasts.
What I really love (and I am repeating myself from an earlier comment) is his new TWiT Army Canteen. Setting up his own Twitter clone based upon laconi.ca, an open and federated microblogging system, which enables a singular and separate community with open ties to all other OpenMicroBlogging systems.
@Jomichael, You (addressing you as in the general sense) have fought so hard and so long for your rights. Why not continue to fight for your legal rights and develop laws that decree them? You want to have a legal union-by the already established marriage law-but you don’t approach the judge/minister as man and woman so it makes no sense since the law is made for man and woman. You want everyone to accept your uniqueness as man with man and woman with woman yet you want be a fitted somehow into that man and woman mold. That also is confusing and without sensibility. I doubt anyone is against all and equal rights (as the married couples have) for two same-sex partners wanting to be together “until death do us part”. But isn’t it dangerous and really almost foolish to seek to change a law regarding a man and a woman? How about making a law regarding man and man/woman and woman and get all the legal rights across state lines, country boundaries, etc. I bet it would fly in a second. Why make life so difficult for yourself by trying to destroy the marriage law between man and woman? Life is difficult enough as we all know!! There is a karmic consequence there also, don’t you think? You are strong and have done much to increase your rights, so keep up that strength with getting what you want in your same-sex pursuit. Remember that the discriminatory furer in the past where Blacks and Whites were not allowed to marry in some states was based on the color of skin of a man and a woman. The basic law about marriage between a man and woman did not change and was not even in question. Do your thing and keep your aims high in your pursuits. Please don’t complicate your lives and those of men and women joined by a law that has helped to preserve society. Do your part too, not to wreak havoc but also to preserve society as I’m sure you would want to do. Just my thouhts as I’m for working out things starting with basic reality and preserving the rights of all of us in this world without taking anyone’s rights away…not the married couples’ and not the same-sex united couples’..heck, you can even make up a new name for your joining together and who knows you might even get more rights and privileges than married couples, then they will have to catch up like you are doing now. Thanks for your time for this long feedback! This has been my idea for a long time but you are the first person I’m sharing it with. My prayer: Dear God, preserve us all and lead us all home to You to be eternally happy as You intended for us all from the start.
OOPS! I addressed the long feedback to the wrong person. Sorry, Pat, it is your feedback that I wanted to speak to. Thanks.
@mary-
The law has already been changed and legal unions are allowed in CA. This Prop *8 seeks to change it back.
from Pat:
“When the Church takes a stand against same sex marriage, it is, in my opinion, crossing the line between religion and politics and advocating discrimination.”
@Pat – So what do you propose the Church do in a situation such as this?
It seems to me that the Church would be recognizing sin and being a watchtower for the common good, not discriminating against those committing the sin. We are a Church of sinners, after all, so where does the discrimination come in?
@Pat,
Yes, of course, but my effort is to try to keep your legal union from being in this battle of change. Again, perhaps creating and passing laws regarding your specific, unique union, that of man with man and woman with woman (not the nonsensical husband and husband as I heard one judge/minister say) and declaring it separate and different from the husband and wife union of marriage would seem to be easier on everyone. Can’t that be done? What do you think?
my 2cents — where is the word “sacrement” in reference to Church and marriage ?
@Joe,
That’s more like a $64,000 question. (I’m SURE you are too young to know about that old TV show!) I don’t know, the Catholic Church wraps marriage in the holiness of a sacrament, but I believe several non-Catholic, Christian denominations do not consider marriage a sacrament. Is that correct? I think I heard that before. Anyway, all Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Buddists, and more, I think, believe it to have a sacredness about it and all hold it in high esteem as it has been held since the beginning of time. I recommend “The Theology of the Body” by John Paul II for a deep look into love and the marriage sacrament.
Father… Have you heard of Mystic Monk Coffee? I first heard of it on Catholic Answers Live and subscribed soon after to start receiving monthly shipments of coffee. I prefer it over bringing Starbucks home to grind, and it supports a great Catholic cause. The group that roasts the coffee are Carmelite Monks located near Cody, Wyoming. They have a web site http://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/index.html
Peace