ljmitchell's blog

It is absolutely wonderful that we have arrived (with little haste) to a period in history in which racism has so waned that a black candidate can be a viable runner in a race for the presidency.  Read More »

Recently I was dating someone who is HIV positive and, as is customary among consenting [gay] adults, sex was discussed ad nausium, the implications, the risks, the barriers and the potential outcomes of all possible scenarios. Under the influence of narcotics I allowed myself to engage in "at risk behavior, and thus began the discussion of responsibility.  Read More »

While perspectives and speculations wandered, I maintained steadfastly that I was straight and christian through and through. Two months ago, however, I set into motion a machine of truth. I came out.  Read More »

Previously unaware, a particular schmuck on here (hardly worth mentioning) brought it to my attention that one of my blogs had been censored. At first, I was admittedly disturbed. It seemed a shrude commentary on the public sentiments en generale that conservatism is tantamount to primitivism. Horseapples.  Read More »

Quite often we are encouraged by “professionals” not to spank our children, too often we are told that such is abusive. I intend to raise my children by the rod. My grandmother, having raised 3 children and 8 grandchildren, began her healthy dole of spankings when her children were still infantile.  Read More »

Much is made of the fundamentalist terms by which righteousness is achieved; legalism is abhorred as a deterioration of serious benevolence. The truth lies in that strictures are provided by an indelible source, whose fount has not yet run dry. In the modern age which supplies pragmatic underpinnings to every popular machination, religion—and thus the church—has entertained for too long the notion that the most politically and socially expedient of affairs are those with which the greater ecclesiastic body should occupy itself.  Read More »

Again, this is going to follow the logic presented in other articles speaking against the marginalized logic and redundancy of hate crime definitions.

Should we censor hate speech? NO.  Read More »

Having left, I'm sure, no doubt that I'm a religious conservative, I wanted to address the spiritually inept here at progressiveu.org, especially of those who find it entertaining to assail Christians and Christianity.  I wonder what genetic defect it is that brings them to such a stupor in which these activities seem worth while.  I have not ruled out genuine mental retardation.   Read More »