Did you know that 13% of human deaths are caused by cancer?
How about the fact that some 200 million people in Africa are malnourished?
And get this… 18 people were murdered in Chicago in the one-week period between June 29 and July 6.
Why is it then that there is a website devoted to stopping Willis Group from renaming the Sears Tower? This is almost as mind-boggling as the people who have picketed Macy’s for renaming Marshall Field’s. Folks – it’s a building. A well-known, iconic building, sure, but still just a building. There are bigger fish to fry here.
If you want to stay local, how about picketing City Hall for allowing that LAZ Parking takeover of Chicago’s parking meter system to go through. Or actually making some noise about the large number of other corrupt actions our government has taken. You could sign a petition or call your senator and encourage them to pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act, otherwise known as the Matthew Shepard Act, without any amendments. There are so many worthy causes that would make a real difference.
But people are taking action to stop a deal that has brought a large tenant to a very vacant Chicago landmark because it involves changing the name. Personally, I’m ready and willing to sacrifice the sign outside the Sears/Willis Tower in exchange for a business deal that will help boost our local economy.
My measly blog that three people read is somehow important enough to garner ridiculous right wing comments. “Jean” left me this comment in response to my comments on the Trib article a couple days ago. I love how she even fails to use a capital letter for the word “I” – is it a sign of her submission to the same people that are using religion to continually discriminate against groups of people unlike them? And do you really think that gay marriage is an abomination to “humanities?” I hardly think that art, culture, music, and literature are suffering from the great threat that gay marriage is. She is spot on with one comment though. You can learn from your wrongs, but that does not make them “right.” The “right” has a standing history of not learning from the things they’ve done wrong.
What do you think?
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We are near the end of the world. Homosexuality is a sin to GOD, and to self. Almost everything in nature was created in pair by GOD. By promoting homosexuality rights to a marriage will be and i shall say already is an abomination to humanities. Although i have conservative values, i am neither a conservative, nor a liberal. We need to be careful with the message we are sending to our kids on a daily basis. Wrong can never be right no matter how you look at it. You can learn from your wrongdoing; however, that does not make it right.