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If they ask "what would Jesus do?", Jesus is the one that could answer
them. "love your enemies" "turn the other cheek" "be gentle as a dove"
"love thy neighbor as thyself" "wash one another's feet" "judge not"
(hmmm) "forgive" "love one another" "be merciful"...
They don't seem to know the same Jesus that I do. When they brought Jesus a
woman who was condemned to stoning (obviously, there were the same sort of
people "executing justice" then), He said "he who is without sin, let him
cast the first stone". My Jesus never said to imprison and punish...to hate
and persecute. He never said anything about eating or possessing "illegal"
things. HE said that what you take into your body doesn't defile you...it's
what comes out of your mouth that defiles you. Look at the list of things
that HE said defile coming out of the mouth. "evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries,...false witness, blasphemies". It IS blasphemy to call evil
deeds "approved by Jesus".
What would Jesus do? He'd let all the prisoners of this evil drug war FREE!
kris
>This letter, while deemed not "on target" for map's drug news line,
>still carries an important message for those who would understand the drug
>warriors and their backers.
>
>The prosecution and jailing of hundreds of thousands of peaceful marijuana
>users flies in the face of rationality, compassion and any sense of
fairness,
>in the view of many people. We feel it is directly contradictory to the
>understandings that allow us to live together in a civil society. On the
other
>hand, this campaign is backed by a zealous disregard of what we think is
>rational, compassionate, fair. The backers of this war are listening to
>something else, together. Something which we do not agree on. Something
>outside of our social contract as we understand it in the light of day.
>
>In the light of day, when numerous commissions and studies say marijuana is
>harmless and that the punishment should fit the crime, we should question
>arresting and imprisoning marijuana users. But they are not listening to
>reason. They are listening to something else which they agree on but we do
>not. Under cover they have committed to having us all governed by their
>prejudices, no matter what the social contract says.
>
>Jim Rosenfield
>
>
>Source: Los Angeles Times Letters
>Contact: letters@latimes.com
>Fax: 2132374712
>Pubdate: February 25, 1999
>
>U.S. Hatred of Intellectuals
>
> * Regarding Bruce J. Schulman's "As American as Hating Intellectuals,"
>Opinion, Feb. 21: True, the House Republicans did not ask what a rational
>constitutional scholar would recommend they do; instead, many were
reported
>to have asked, "What would Jesus do?" Perhaps they acted on their own
>individual consciences but also on their collective religious consciences,
>rather than in any sort of civic regard. This, I think, is a clear example
>of their personal, sectarian religious practices causing crisis, trauma
and
> disruption to our diverse society at large.
> If Americans are, on the whole, a moral yet reasoned and
>pragmatic people, this episode must serve to drive deeper into the
>background the minute yet mesmerizingly influential cadre of archaic
>clerics who, using leaders such as these as proxies, would like nothing
>more than to fulfill their own apocalyptic, suicidal fantasies by
>prosecuting an "American cultural war" entirely of their own making.
>
>MARTIN K. ZITTER
>Pasadena
>Jim Rosenfield
>
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