Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
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Seeking Peace & God's Grace in Washington D.C.
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.” Barbara Ehrenreich “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” Jose Narosky “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” John Lennon My 17-year-old son Ben and I spent the evening of Friday, March 16th in the Washington National Cathedral along with nearly 3,000 other people praying for peace on the eve of the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq. “Christian Peace Witness for Iraq” was organized by Sojourners and a vast array of Christian organizations from across the country including Adventist Peace Fellowship, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Faith in Public Life, Pax Christi USA, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Lutheran Peace Fellowship, Methodist Federation for Social Action, the Quakers and many other faithful seekers of peace who wished to join together and pray for peace and a swift end to war. We were bound together by faith, frustration, and love of God, belief that a higher power can conquer politics and that prayer can heal our hurts and make us whole again. The pure love that encompassed us all that night is difficult for me to put into words. So many times I have been brought so low and felt so hopeless and lost that I have literally laid down at the foot of the cross and asked God to lift me up and he/she (insert your higher power here) has always been there for me and on this night I felt surrounded not only by this all encompassing love but by the power of his faithful servants and their love and strength and once again I felt uplifted and hopeful in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation.
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SC Legislature is Fetus Focused
It’s common knowledge that South Carolina has a seemingly endless list of serious problems. Our public health issues are extremely problematic and costly not only in the fiscal sense but in the human damage inflicted. According to the Guttmacher Institute, South Carolina ranks 9th nationally in the HIV/AIDS infection rate among teens and 10th among adults per capita (for our population). The Palmetto state has the 3rd highest rate of gonorrhea and syphilis and the 5th highest rate of chlamydia and 9th highest teenage birth rate in the United States among 15 to 17 year olds. A 2003 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that more than 50% of South Carolina’s 10th graders are already engaging in sexual intercourse. By 12th grade that percentage rises to over 70% vs. a national average of 50%.
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The morality of Gen. Peter Pace
You can give Gen. Peter Pace points for being honest.
People who’d like to see all homosexuals driven out of the U.S. military usually couch their desires in language about troop morale and unit cohesion. But when the Chicago Tribune asked Pace about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Monday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t hide behind words like those.
“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace said. “I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way. As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else’s wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.”
We’re all for prosecuting immoral behavior, just as long as we’re the ones who get to decide what’s immoral. And on that front, we’ll associate ourselves with the words of the National Stonewall Democrats’ Jo Wyrick: “It is immoral to send our service members into battle without the proper equipment or plan. It is immoral to deny them proper medical care upon their return, and it is immoral to revoke support for our troops based on this misguided policy reaffirmed by General Pace and the White House.”
Oh, and ridding the military of desperately needed Arabic-speaking linguists just because they happen to be gay? That’s at least a little bit immoral, too.