Monday, August 23, 2010

Don't Pee in My Pool 

We all heard it growing up.  The pools even have signs telling you not to do it.  It's a matter of hygiene yes, but it also involves good taste.  Civilized folks just don't do that. 

So you have a friend over from a far away land and you take him to the public pool and you find him taking a whiz.  Seems in his country it is a religious tradition and he wonders aloud why you are offended.  You try to explain that in this country that's just not how it's done.  He calls you un-enlightened, intolerant and suggests you are a hypocrite. His friends chime in and demand to know why you hate them for following tradition.  They are only looking to broaden your narrow minded views.  Even your Constitution supports them.  Clearly you are the problem.

So goes the Ground Zero Mosque debate. 

It just ain't right. That's it.  I don't care whose goat you worship, it ain't right.   

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