I’m not linking to this article because I agree with the outcome, but rather because it’s something major that’s going on within the United Methodist Church.
I should note that there are a couple of pieces in the Washington Post article that aren’t perfectly clear. First, this decision was a conference-level decision, which means it doesn’t necessarily effect anybody outside of the Pacific Northwest Conference. This is made more clear in the UMC’s coverage.
I rooted for Clay during the second season of American Idol, but I never counted on buying his album or—God forbid—liking it. Modern pop music is overwhelmingly crap, and I expected an overproduced, hyped, electronically enhanced, new-age “R&B” influenced pop crap album like that put out by first-season Idol winner Kelly Clarkson or like Britney Spears’s two most recent albums.
The Bee Gees were one of the more popular soft rock/pop bands of the late sixties, but their popularity had all-but-disintegrated in the early seventies—only to be rekindled by their later disco work. Today, the brotherly trio is remembered most for their contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
I was thinking about writing a rant about the current situation in Iraq. You all know what I think about the Iraq conflict—I think it was necessary. Unpleasant, yes, but necessary. I could write volumes about why I think we did the right thing.
Senator John Kerry won all but one of the primaries in yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” contests, where ten states went to the polls to make their selections for the Democratic nomination.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
