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The Oklahoma Daily
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OPINION
EDITORIAL
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Dogma no obstacle to tolerance
AT A GLANCE GLBT-friendly Institutions
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Dustin Scheller, aerospace engineering junior
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
COLUMN
‘Socialist’ a misunderstood term
OPINION COLUMNIST
America has long been a hybrid of capitalism and the so-
Scott Starr is a f.’atfi’e American studies senior.
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Meat-free meals
make it easy to go
vegetarian, vegan
The Our View
is the majority
opinion of
The Daily's
nine-member
editorial board
Chris Lusk
Chase Cook
James Codey
Laney Ellisor
Greg Fewell
Lindsey Ruta
Mary Stanfield
Kingsley Burns
Melodie lettkeinan
Katherine Borgerding
Kyle Margerum
Kristen Milburn
Oklahoma, churches and other houses of worship
provide an important social sphere for many.
Members of the GLBT community should know
they have the option of continuing to participate in
religious life even after coming out — they do not
have to choose between an open life and a spiritual
life.
But in order for that message to permeate
Oklahoma’s gay community, more congrega-
tions will have to take the brave step of publicly
Norman-Oklahoma City area. We’ve included a few
examples, and with a little searching, you can find
the one that most closely fits your own religious
beliefs.
And for the rest of you who belong to a religious
community, we urge you to start a conversation
within your congregation about GLBT believers.
These decisions must come from within the reli-
gious community itself, and you may be surprised
how many people at your place of worship are open
to acceptance of the GLBT community.
Given the importance of your puolic acceptance
to the spiritual lives of GLBT individuals, it can’t
hurt to try.
live.
I don't care if the government is big or small, as long as it is
efficient and does what is right. There’s the rub.
This is a list of the openly
GLBT-friendly religious
institutions the Daily editonai
board could find. If you have
others to add. send the
information to dailyopinion#
ou.edu, and we will add them
to the list at OUDaity.com.
email:
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University of Oklahoma's independent student
voice and an enorely student run publication.
Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to The Daily's March
27 editonai. ‘Trayvon Martin tragedy questions whether state
unchecked gun laws are reckless*
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unreligious and i am acquainted with several religious people
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AT A GLANCE
Local stores
with vegan,
vegetarian,
cruelty-free
options
Walmart
333 N Interstate Dr
405-329 4000
Target
1400 24th Avenue
Northwest
405-253-3003
The Earth Natural Foods
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St Stephen's United
Methodist Church
1801 W. Brooks St.. Norman
Sunday services: 8:30 a m.,
10:50 am.
StStephensNorman.org
Edmond Trinity Christian
Church (Disciple* of Christ)
1400 N.W. 178th St.. Edmond
Sunday services: 10:45 a.m.
EdmondTrinity.org
First Unitarian Church
600 NW 13th St.. OKC
Sunday services: 11 a.m.
UUOKCorg
Our View: Accepting religious institutions spread
the message that one can be both religious and
GLBT.
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T1 very time 1 read or
hear someone call
JLj President barack
Obama or some other
Democrat a socialist. 1 am
reminded of the movie “The
Princess Bride."
In that movie, the charac-
ter Inigo Montoya — played
by Mandy Patinkin — says
to someone who excessively
uses a particular word in
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consists of nine student editors The board meets
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Hall Board meetings are open to the public
So, for any members of the GLBT community
who are inclined to religious beliefs, we urge you
one cannot be both religious and GLBT. For many, to try out the accepting housing of worship in the
coming out also means walking away from the re-
ligious community in which they were raised, or
choosing to remain and endure the discomfort of
rejection.
But Trinity Christian Church and other accept-
ing institutions disprove this assumption. These
churches' brave decision to come forward and af-
firm GLBT believers as legitimate members of the
church and equal parts of God’s creation lets the
GLBT community know a religious life still is an
option.
For those inclined to spiritual belief, member-
ship in a religious community is an important as-
pect of life. The sense of community, support and
comfort they may get from belonging to a religious
community cannot be overstated. And in religious Comment on this at OUDaily.COm
lack of understanding — when most of our homes and store
shelves are jam-packed with goods made in communist
China, or when many of the dollars we spend at places like
Walmart go right back to China with its terrible human
rights record and its "red," nuclear-capable military.
Unless you do not buy, sell, trade, consume or own any-
thing from China, you simply cannot gripe about socialism
or communism without being something of a hypocrite.
In some aspects, China already has overtaken the U.S.
as the No. 1 economy in the world. Some would argue too
much taxing and regulation in the U.S. has driven manufac-
turing overseas.
However, it could also be said that many “patriotic’ U.S.
companies have moved their production offshore because
they can pay people pennies a day without passing the sav-
meaning. Obama is tagged as a socialist despite the fact tf at ings on to U.S. consumers and get away with murder regard-
he continued policies begun under the Bush administration, ing environmental protections.
like bailing out Wall Street and the banking system. Calling America has long been a hybrid of capitalism and the so-
hihi a socialist after those rescue programs is not unlike call - cial safety net theory, the latter of which is often mistaken
ing televangelist Pat Robertson an atheist
Real socialists deny Obama is one of them. Greg Pason,
national secretary of the Socialist Party USA, and David
Schaich, Socialist Party campaign clearinghouse coordina-
tor, both say Obama definitely is not. Schaich said the idea
that Obima is socialist — or quasi-socialist, semi-socialist,
for socialism. The hybrid is known as a democratic republic
or democratic capitalism. Social safety nets are designed to
make our system work more smoothly and not implode due
to inequities and imbalances.
There are those who insist that providing social safety nets
is not the government's job. But such programs have helped
socialist-right or anything of the sort — is far-right nonsense, capitalism survive and make this country a decent place to
He said Obama, like his political opponents, is very much
a typical politician, fully committed to capitalism and the ex-
pansion of its empire.
Schaich also said a real socialist agenda — even a reform-
ist one — would not prop up capitalist systems or companies
when they fail but rather would seize the opportunity to
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Norman. OK 73019 2052
In response to your Thursday article, “The life of a veg-
etarian is widely misunderstood," I would like to praise
Maya Sykes for showcasing how easy ‘ is to go vegetarian.
Vegetarian and vegan foods are more popular than ever,
particularly among college students, for reasons ranging
from health and environ-
mental concerns to the
clear cruelty to animals
involved in raising and
killing animals for food.
A recent study by Bon
Appetit, a leading food-
service provider, conclud-
ed the number of vegetar-
ian students has risen by
50 percent since 2005 and
the number of vegan stu-
dents has more than dou-
bled in that same period.
Most students are horri-
fied to discover that chick-
ens have their sensitive
beaks cut off when they ’re
only days old, male pig-
lets are castrated and
cows are branded and de-
horned — all without any
painkillers.
These terrified animals
are often skinned and
dismembered while still
conscious as well. If these
kinds of abuses were in-
flicted upon cats or dogs, they would result in felony cru-
The congregation of Trinity Christian Church in
Edmond has unanimously decided to join a hand-
ful of churches in Oklahoma that openly accept
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender believers.
The church, part of the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ), has declared itself publicly accepting of
the GLBT community and promised its teachings
will be friendly towards homosexuality.
This is a controversial step for a Christian church,
particularly in Oklahoma. But it’s also an incredibly
important one.
Despite widespread disagreement about how to
interpret biblical teachings regarding homosexu-
ality, it often seems — in -America, at least — that
the gay community and the religious community
are diametrically opposed. .After all, the loudest
voices against gay and transgen-
der rights come from the Christian
community, and many churches
preach public hatred for the GLBT
community.
It’s not just Christianity, either.
The narrative of religion vs. homo-
sexuality extends to most other reli- declaring their acceptance of homosexuality and
gious beliefs as well, and churches are not the only transgenderism,
ones to teach anti-GLBT messages.
Hearing those outspoken voices, many assume
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Trayvon tragedy
does not justify
stricter gun laws
» Poll question of the day
Would you attend a house of worship that
was accepting of the GLBI community?
elty-to-animals charges.
Yet these practices are standard in an industry that re-
fuses to make even the most basic improvements to the
way animals are treated.
Thankfully, with so many delicious and cruelty-free
dishes — such as vegan barbecue riblets and vegan pizza
— available at most grocery stores and with chain res-
taurants such as Denny ’s and Ruby Tuesday adding deli-
cious vegetarian and vegan dishes to their menus, it has
never been easier to avoid this kind of cruelty. For more
information, visit peta2.com to request a free vegetarian/
vegan starter kit
The Trayvon Martin shooting is a tragedy, as is any loss
of human life, but should that automatically mean that
Oklahoma needs stricter guns laws?
You asked, "How would this have been different if
Zimmerman had not had a gun?" Just because a person
picks up a gun does not diminish that person s value of
human life — it is the person, not the gun. If they are going
to commit murder or rape, the gun is optional.
Stricter gun laws will not change this; they only restrict
law-abiding citizens, not criminals. As for the world turn-
ing into a Wild West shoot out if everyone has a gun, you
might want to visit a few websites, such as the FBI website.
The FBI has studies proving areas with looser gun control
have a lower crime rate.
The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus website
also answers many of the questions mentioned in the ar-
ticle. 1 have been shooting since 1 was 6 and know first-
hand that gun laws are not the answer — education about
firearms is. The more you know about them, the more you
will understand about why gun laws actually endanger us.
It is my right to carry my gun on my hip to be able to de-
fend my life or another's life.
1 hope I never have to draw it, but I would rather have it
with me and not have to ever use it than to need it when
it's left at my home.
radically transform the economy.
The bailing out of a failing company whose collapse could
destroy the U.S. economy is not socialism, says Van Gosse,
socialist and historian at Franklin & Marshall College.
“Let’s just say AIG was profitable, and you thought it was
better if it was in public hands," Gosse wrote on his blog on
The Huffington Post. “That would be socialistic."
In America, we don't have a two-party system that is really
diametrically opposed on economic policy. What we actual-
ly have is two warring factions within one all-powerful party:
the business party.
It is hollow to complain about socialism — or “commu-
questionable ways, “You keep using that word. 1 do not think nism,” which is used with the same distain and the same
it means what you think it means.”
Many people simply do not understand the meaning of
sociatem. It seems some believe if you repeat something
enough times, it eventually will be true.
I c niuy commentary that honestly Addresses problems
about social policy or actual socialism. But it is difficult to
respect or even tolerate those who weaponize terms like so-
cialism into emotionally charged, derogatory conversation
terminators.
Most of the time, "socialist" is deployed as either an ad
hominem or a straw man. I am convinced some of the edu-
cated people throwing around the word “socialist" know-
better but cannot resist the effectiveness of using it this way.
The misuse of the term “socialism" has been so common
in recent generations mat the word is just about devoid of
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