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I can confirm the service of my forbears in the Union Army but can't confirm what my wife has always been told, namely that her great-grandfather was a Union officer but his wife was a confederate sympathizer who worked in molding bullets for the South. Only in the border states! I attended a funeral for a distant relative in California back in the 90s and the first thing said to me by her son (whom I had never met) was something like “Yep, you look just like one,” referring to the Indians (okay, native-Americans). I've been told that I have a significant amount of Indian blood account my maternal great-grandmother being perhaps either whole- or half-Indian. I've read enough about the subject to believe it and figure that in the northern-most pathways of the “Trail of Tears,” which I believe probably meandered through southeast Kentucky, some of the captives simply drifted away, as they did in the rest of the Appalachians.

Never a dull moment in Ky. Judge resigns over religious convictions: .

Jim, this is where your link led me:

You're talking about the anti-gay-adoptions judge, I imagine. Here's about the matter.

Yeah, you're right. I brought up the paper itself meaning the turning of pages. Sorry. The article helps explode the myth that the USA is a Christian nation. Actually, just on the basis of this article and the abortion of 60 million since 1973 indicate that the USA is actually far more heathen, but then we knew that, didn't we? Tampering with God's design for the propagation of the race is blasphemy, no matter how governmentally legal it is.

I'm not so sure God's plan for human propagation is all that simplistic, and I'm also not all that sure what the supposed ethics violations of the judge were (I've only skimmed the particular story). If all he did was recuse himself (or try to) from cases where he believed his own religious beliefs would preclude his objective fairness as a judge under the laws of the land, then I think that's laudable. Certainly better than pretending to uphold the laws of the land while actually just upholding one's personal beliefs. In my opinion. I can see how one could take the opposite position. One of my failings, the ability to see the other side of all these gray issues.

Gray issues don't have sides. They're subject to relativity, not substance. In the matter of same-sex marriage and the slaying of the unborn, there are only black or white. Just like its being impossible to be partly pregnant, it's impossible for a fetus to be half-dead while the fetus-carrier decides whether the little inconvenient thing (like an appendix) is half-alive and therefore eligible to be born. When two men conceive a child, the gray area will be abolished. Until then, same-sex marriage is blasphemy in spades. There's always cloning, of course, but even—especially—that is uber-apostasy, in direct contravention of Nature's (God's) plan. God didn't tell Adam to be fruitful and multiply and Jesus didn't say that a man must leave himself and be wedded to himself and be fruitful and multiply.