Eye Nosh: Is This the Best Pastrami in America?
Zenyatta Makes "Her"Story
Pixies 'Doolittle' @ The Palladium 11/4/09
-thumb-110x110-455795.jpg)
Build Your Own BBQ for Under 10 Bucks!
The Bravery @ the Wiltern 11/05/09
Other than elementary schools, it seems like all of our nation's polling places are in church halls. Is this a violation of church and state? Is it Christian hubris?
On one level it is insulting to people of other faiths who may not feel comfortable in such close proximity to Jesus. How would many of these Christians feel if they had to go vote inside a Wiccan circle? Or at the Church of Satan?
But there is also a part of me that loves it. A part of me says, "Suck it, right-wing Christians! I just voted for sodomy and killing babies! In your face!!!"
Photo by Elite Photo Art via Flickr
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
People have been voting in churches, schools, town halls, lodges, union halls, etc. for centuries in this country.
Your comments are completely immature.
It was the right wing that brought The Church into modern Politics. It's their fault that this question is being brought up.
Most (not all) christian churches are now being seen as a beacon of Republican Ideology as much as a place of worship.
I completely agree with this post, If I had to vote in a church, Id vote absentee instead.
take your church out of politics and I will not see it as a conflict of interest.
GoBoma!
When I was 18, (I'm now over 45) living in the valley, the polling place was in someone's garage.
I voted for Reagan.
It's time for a clear cut separation of church and state. a Secular government that represents the people.
I have to vote under the steely gaze of L. Ron Hubbard.
Perhaps the people replying here are not of the racial demographic that understands that the Civil Rights movement was largely borne from churches, or that its martyred leader, whose birthday America celebrates as a Federally-recognized holiday each January was - gasp - a clergyman. Will the first person here in favor of outlawing MLK day please stand up?
Not against the separation of Church and State, but just pointing out that the issue is much more complex than the tired old "Atheists = good / Religion = evil" dichotomy.
Here's some crack journalism for you! Good job, LAist! Keep up the good work! So glad this got written and posted. Oh man, this is truly information I personally need.
Seriously: why don't you write something that fucking matters. Jesus.
How come people get so outraged when there's a post they aren't interested in reading? Last I checked, frequenting a particular website doesn't contractually require one to read everything posted. I could give a a shit about sports but I don't blast the writer for writing the piece because I know other people do care. Just like I happen to care about the separation between church and state.
That being said, Miltant has a good point (as usual).
Seriously, ratpicnic, way to be a total party pooper (not to mention illogical).
You're not going to care about everything we post. I'm a bloody editor here and *I* don't even care about everything we post. But I'm not an reactionary narcissist, so it doesn't bother me and I'm not moved to express RAGERAGEBLOODYRAGE over one measly post on an otherwise awesome local blog.
Hey, instead of posting an expletive-filled hate-fest, why not try something constructive? Write something up that you care about and then pitch it to our editor. You might be surprised what happens!
I agree with you that a lot of our government has been influenced and stemmed from the church but that is exactly why there needs to be a change now. Not everyone living in the US believes in the same God or any God for that matter. The government should be a reflection of it's people.
Celebrating a holiday created to commemorate someone is not going to effect me the same as a proposition or constitutional change. I can choose to not celebrate the holiday but I can not choose to not follow the law.
Exit polls in California on prop 8found that 70 percent of black voters backed the ban. Slightly more than half of Latino voters, who made up almost 20 percent of voters, favored the ban, while 53 percent of whites opposed it.