Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Politics of Minneapolis

One thing that kept popping out during our trip to Minneapolis was how political things were in the states. Trisha and I kept running across pro-life billboards on the highway. I thought the pro-life billboards were pretty tacky and unimaginative they had saying like 'God know their soul from inception.' Maybe it is how Americans use God or religious language to guilt or convince others to your point of view. I would say I am pro-choice, not to say that abortion is a good choice, but I think the pro-life choice is only concerned with a baby till it is born afterwards who cares.

In the city a lot of homes had peace, anti-war, and support our troops signs on their front lawn. Trisha and I found that interesting how political things were in the U.S.A compared to Canada. I wonder if Minneapolis has a broad political range of these ideas(pro-life, peace, anti-war, and supporting the troops) or if it is simple part of the complexity of life. That we can have a mosaic of view that appear to be in contradiction or live in a society where two views are colliding with each other.

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