So Iowa is in the thralls of a controversy. Yes....it's critically important, so stop the presses and send in all the TV reporters. Stop all the food-on-a-stick reports. No, wait, they can't stop that.
The Iowa State Fair plans to honor Michael Jackson with a butter sculpture along-side the already scheduled main-event sculpture honoring the anniversary of the moon landing. But wait...apparently "people" are in an uproar over this and now it's being put to a vote.
A vote over a butter sculpture.
Let me repeat that for emphasis.... A vote over a butter sculpture.
Yes, some Iowans are all in a tizzy that someone DARE honor the King of Pop at the Iowa State Fair. How DARE we honor a man who changed music, dance, and arguably, the world?
Since when are the butter sculptures up to general Iowans? Would they similarly protest a butter Elvis (for his doing drugs, or dating a minor) or a butter Garth Brooks (for obvious reasons)? No. MJ is apparently evil incarnate
Who should really care if the sculptor decides to honor a musician, dance, humanitarian? Oh wait, the red-neck idiots of my state do. And since I listen almost exclusivley to a Christian music station, they are of the same judgemental persuasion. And that saddens me to no end. Jesus did not ask us to judge those among us. He LOVED those among us. So to listen to a Christian radio station judge with such ease gives me pause. And further saddens me for their hipocrasy.
I know I likely have some people reading this who will disagree with me (and likely strongly so). But I choose to follow the path of love, not judgment. And the path of love seems to be ignored lately, in favor of judgment and hate. And that is something I will NOT abide by.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
A Sad Day for Iowa
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Hey there, missy. I don't think you're going down the path of love by implying that Garth Brooks' music is horrible.
And you think you know a person....
*smooch*
Ah...but THAT'S a "musical" opinion.
And I added Garth solely because I remembered him being a butter sculpture and how revolting that was to me, but I would never have protested the fair not put him there.
I agree that the protests are stupid. I think the butter cow/sculptures are dorky anyway. A few years ago I waited in line with my kids for an hour to see the butter cow and the butter Harry Potter.
They were nonplussed when we finally got up there.
Yeah, I don't bother to go see it. I might walk by the general vicinity of the line and catch a glimpse. That's good enough.
Heck, I probably won't even go to the fair this year.
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