| When the congressman from my home state | | | | the rest of the American society. Another good |
| shouted out "You Lie" to Obama, he wasn't doing | | | | example were the Jim Crow laws in the South, |
| so to defend veterans, help out the needy in the | | | | which simply barred blacks from certain places |
| community, or protect the religious or political | | | | and activities. However, it seems you don't have |
| liberties of his constituents. No, he was yelling out | | | | to go back to history to find this intolerance, it is |
| in his childish rant to protest the mere thought | | | | among us now. Are we really fighting so that |
| that a certain group of people might have a | | | | living, breathing human beings (and that is what |
| chance to buy health insurance. The group he was | | | | they are, children of God, like you and me no |
| so furious about was undocumented workers, | | | | matter what their legal status) cannot obtain |
| who ironically help support the economy of our | | | | health insurance for their families, including their |
| whole nation. | | | | young children? Is that we have come to as a |
| Many Americans like to stand proudly and say | | | | society? I can see the Father looking down in |
| that the racism and discrimination that use to | | | | sorrow as we speak of ourselves as a Christian |
| plague society has passed. However, this issue | | | | society and the importance of holding up "family" |
| that has recently been brought to light makes me | | | | values and then totally disregard the needy and |
| greatly doubt the tolerance and compassion of | | | | sick among us. In the end, history will judge us by |
| the society. In the new health care bill to be | | | | our actions. Do we want to be represented in the |
| passed, there is language which simply bans | | | | same category as the Jim Crow Laws or do we |
| undocumented workers from obtaining health | | | | be known as a people that put aside our selfish |
| insurance (I am sure Joe Wilson is relieved). | | | | agendas and intolerance to help meet the needs |
| Though this is certainly done to appeal to the | | | | of those around us. Maybe as it says in the book |
| conservative side of the nation, it seems to me | | | | of James, we need to start practicing true religion |
| to be a very dark and sinister threat against our | | | | and stop a pseudo spirituality which allows us to |
| supposed values and ethics. | | | | hold on to our selfish thinking and ignore the |
| In my U.S. History class, we are currently | | | | needs of those around us and God's children of |
| studying in the struggle of the Irish Immigrants in | | | | every different background. In the end, that kind |
| the 19th century. We are learning about the | | | | of religion is dead and is worthless towards the |
| discrimination, hatred, and malice they faced by | | | | hope of a restored and redeemed world. |