Immigration problems

Republican ethics scandals, intelligent design, and marginalized racists. With today's headlines it's difficult not to have an opinion. But the most dominant news story of the past few weeks, illegal immigrants, makes my head spin.

What do we admit? Do we admit that our goods are so cheap because we are able to fuel our agricultural machine with cheap labor? We end up embracing a completely unethical system of labor exploitation, which most of us just turn a blind eye towards. We have become a society that relies on illegals to pick fruits and vegetables, work crappy factory jobs, clean our houses, do manual labor, etc etc. the list goes on and on. What's the alternative? Build big fences. Are out of work Americans going to want to do the jobs that were once populated by illegals, some say "of course not!", others say "they are out of work, it's better than nothing, why wouldn't they do it"... But who knows, we've never been in that situation. We live in a society where you can survive off digging for clothes in the trashcan and scrounging up 99 cents for something on the McDonalds menu... if you were homeless and out of work, would you really want to pick potatos so you can file your IRS forms?

This one is too hard for me. Blows me. Blows you.

Misguided

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6596503.story

"Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation. Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy. With her lawsuit, the 22-year-old student joins a growing campaign to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment. The religious right aims to overturn a broad range of common tolerance programs: diversity training that promotes acceptance of gays and lesbians, speech codes that ban harsh words against homosexuality, anti-discrimination policies that require college clubs to open their membership to all."

"Think how marginalized racists are," said Baylor, who directs the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and Religious Freedom. "If we don't address this now, it will only get worse."

You have got to be kidding me. I was going to write something substantive about this but... I think the comments speak for themselves. The American progressive spirit is under attack by the resurgence of youthful religious faith. We are now trying to fight for our right to be hateful to our fellow man, perhaps someone once said,

""You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

Oh. Jesus and St. Paul. Like whoah. The religious advocating hate. Blows me. Blows you.

end of chapter 2

40 days until graduation... 4 years really flew by. somebody please hire me. please.