The Fan Page in question is this one:
DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN
I see this page as a wish for Obama's death. Ok, now I admit that I don't like the guy and I think he is an extreme danger to the US but like it or not, he's our President. I'm a Christian and it is not within my values to wish someone dead. Yes, perhaps I'm taking the meaning behind this page a bit too literally but I just will not agree to "Like" something like this.
The Group in question is this one:
Petition to remove Facebook group praying for President Obama's death
I don't know what specific "group" this Group is referring to but either way I don't agree with it. This is censorship and that's a dangerous slope to start down. Whatever "group" this group is referring to that is praying for Obama's death... well I wouldn't join that group as it is against my values (see previous bit about the Fan Page above) but this is still a free country and it is their right to put up such a group if they wish to. And it is my right to choose not to join it.
Facebook is a private company so should they choose to act on this "petition" and do remove the other "group" that is referenced, that is their right to do so. But I would still consider it censorship and I am not in agreement with that.
Our country is very divided right now and I will not take part in any action that is praying for or wishing for Obama's death. Nor will I take part in any action that is condoning censorship, on either side of the aisle.
~kate
not violent. not racist. just no longer silent.
1 comment:
I find the first really offensive because it is in fact titled a letter to God about implicitly WISHING that "god" would take somebody's life.
The second I find less offensive because it's generally a group of people who are rightly concerned that there may indeed be people out there praying for the death of somebody -- by joining the group, you're saying that you object to that kind of "prayer".
I of course wouldn't touch the first group, and as you know, joined the second.
I see them as very different...
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