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(Click here to contact House Reps and here for Senators. - promoted by Dean Barker)
During the past three days, I haven't been blogging much -- I've been focusing on communicating with House and Senate members about House Bill 436, and what needs to be done during the next three days. I'm hopeful that by Wednesday we will have approved the additional statutory language that Governor John Lynch wants to make it clear that religious organizations and those connected with them have freedom and independence in our state law.
I have seen considerable dialogue, and numerous questions, on www.BlueHampshire.com during the past couple of days, and I've noticed some excellent responses by Kathy Sullivan, Dean Barker, and Brian Rater, as well as others. I think those questions have been accurately answered, and I'll be giving more streamlined details in the next day or so about the Governor's language to House and Senate members. I'll post those on www.BlueHampshire.com too.
Governor John Lynch, to his credit, sees that his job is to provide protections for everyone in the state. That is why he wants the even clearer, more specific language for religious freedom/independence. During the past few days, as I researched the marriage equality discussions leading to the final versions of legislation in Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine, it's clear that their legislatures and governors went through a similar process.
The Governor's proposed language covers two core elements:
Just wanted to give everyone here a heads up that BU's graduate journalism program just launched a site called The Primary Word about youth political involvement in the '08 election and beyond. Full disclosure, there is an article about yours truly on the front...but in that article there is also a picture of BH All-Star Dean Barker! You'll have to click on the link and follow the story to see it! Happy blogging.
It's undignified. In that sense it's similar to George Bush's smirk. The smirk communicates that "i know something that you don't know, and I'm not going to tell you." In George's case, every once in a while, his subconscious appears to rebel at the constant prevarication and deception and he erupts with a moment of truth, which his staff, typically, takes energetic steps to retract or call back. But the bottom line is that the smirk aims to project a good nature that's designed to deceive.
Perhaps the most egregious example was the hunt for WMD in the Oval Office--a long moment of humor hiding the kernel of truth that the Oval Office is probably as far as the plan to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq got.
