My Daily Domestic Clips 08/31/2010 (a.m.)

• Glenn Beck crowd: racially diverse – Annotated tags: currentevents politics
  • The crowd itself included veterans, parents, disabled Americans, people of all ages and – contrary to some criticism leveled against the rally – attendees of many races and ethnicities.

    Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union based in Washington, D.C., for example, stood on the platform with Alveda King as she recalled her uncle Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech.

    Before the multitudes assembled Alveda King proclaimed, “If Uncle Martin could be here today … he would surely remind us that as brothers and sisters, united by one blood in one single race, the human race, we are called to honor God and to love each other.”

    Praising the entire rally, Gardner exclaimed, “It was phenomenal!

    “It felt great to be up there with all these wonderful leaders, the black pro-life leaders from all over the country,” Gardner said. “I was extremely proud of my sister in Christ and my dear friend, Dr. Alveda King. … Seeing her walk out where her uncle and her father were 47 years ago – my eyes welled up, and I had a lump in my throat, because we have come a really long way.”

  • “I think it’s made about 90 percent of the politicians in this city very nervous,” Roever said. “Some of them are tremblin’ in their offices right now because this is a statement – not only to D.C., but to the whole country – that we’re not going to be satisfied with the status quo.”

    Roever said he wants all politicians – from the president to lawmakers to activist judges – to know that many people are fed up like him:

• Intimate Issues: The Making of a Marriage Bed ~ Holy Experience – Annotated What a charming idea! tags: marriage
  • Last weekend, we celebrated my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. This morning, they left on a long-awaited trip to Hawaii. They were as excited as if it were their honeymoon.

    When my parents married, they had only enough money for a three-day trip 50 miles from home. They made a pact that each time they made love, they would put a dollar in a special metal box and save it for a honeymoon in Hawaii for their 50th anniversary.

  • My parents were always very much in love. I can remember Dad coming home and telling Mom, “I have a dollar in my pocket,” and she would smile at him and reply, “I know how to spend it.”

• Roman Catholic Vocations: “23 Reasons Why A Priest Should Wear His Collar” tags: Catholic priesthood

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