Opinion:

Since when did we as country decide that if someone has a differing opinion or if someone's beliefs differ not only do we seek to humiliate, but destroy them. I look at what is happening in California with the prop 8, now, for the second time time, the people of California have said that they want a constitutional amendment to their state constitution defining marriage between a man and a woman. But, instead of accepting what the people have said, those that have apposed are seeking to intimidate and persecute those that voted for this initiative.

The same thing is being done to Sarah Palin, I am not arguing her qualifications here, but I am concerned about the effort to destroy her. Why is this? When did we change from a country of differing opinions to a country that can not tolerate any thought that is contrary?

It seems that we have damned ourselves, that is by crushing thought and opinion, we as a country can not grow. The feeling in the country is so contentious, it is moving from what is the best for the country to what minority do we have to appease. It seems like we have political parties to punish one group or the other.

If we do not pull together as a country, we are going to end up in a world of hurt. We need to hear the opinions of each other and not take any ownership.

In my primary class we talked about the Nephites and the period of time after Christ's visit. They lived with out contention or disputation. How did they do this? They did have correct principals which always helped, but they had when their society dissintegrated. The key as I see it is that once the contention returned and was allowed to grow they lost everything. How do you have a society of peace? My supposition has to do with onwership. It says that they had all things in common, and that there were not Nephites or Lamanites. I do not mean that it was a time when they weren't growing and discovering, but they were one in purpose. They had one goal and they all worked toward this. I am sure that opinions differed but no one owned that opinion and allowed rejection to anger them. When strife is eliminated then the things like murder and theft diappear. How do we acompilish this? How do we pull together?