Posted by crushedout on December 14, 2003, at 17:51:14
In reply to Re: Reality Therapy, posted by crushedout on December 14, 2003, at 17:44:43
i sort of regret bringing this up, because i'm not sure politics are really appropriate in this forum, and i have VERY strong feelings about this sort of thing.on a lighter note, this reminds me of a seinfeld episode where elaine tells seinfeld he shouldn't eat domino's pizza cuz they're anti-choice, and seinfeld's like, "well, have you asked mario (or whatever the guy's name is who owns the local italian restaurant) what his position on abortion is?" and she's like, "no." and he's like, "so maybe he's anti-choice and you shouldn't eat there." you know, just pointing out the absurdity of trying to make all of your consumer decisions based on politics.
[don't you love the way i write: "so he's like...and then she's like....."!?! i sound like i'm 14. (i'm not!)]
> oh dinah. i thought that was from karen. whoops.
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> well, see, i find that position offensive, even though i know a lot of religious orgs agree. so i hold it against them, just as i would hold it against any religion that told me i couldn't have sex!
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> but yeah, we should be careful. we're getting into hairy territory here.
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> > I didn't mean it in a positive or negative way. Just allowing the Salvation Army to present their own position in their own way.
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> > A lot of religious organizations do a lot of good, and the Salvation Army is a religious organization. Their position doesn't appear to be dissimilar to that of many other religious organizations? Of course, much more talk about religious organizations and we'll be rerouted to PB Faith.
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> > Isn't there also a website that gives the breakdown of program spending for the different charities? Giving just isn't as easy as it used to be. I saw one solicitation from an organization whose name I don't recall that said that 8% of its revenues went to program services. It kind of looked like they had been court ordered to disclose that, from the way it was worded.
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