1/7/06

People should not be surprised over President Bush's spying and eavesdropping as the US has a long history of Presidents pushing the boundaries of civil liberties and even crossing the line. For example, during the Civil War President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and was accused of being a dictator. During the second World War, President Franklin Roosevelt gave J. Edgar Hoover permission to wiretap and he ordered Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Lyndon B. Johnson used faulty information to persuade Congress to fight in Vietnam (faulty information, sound familiar?) and doesn't everyone know about Nixon?

Caught with his pants down? South Tulsa Baptist Church senior pastor Lonnie Latham was arrested for offering to engage in public lewdness. Latham propositioned a plainclothes police officer outside a hotel; Latham was there for the Southern Baptist Convention. Latham has been very outspoken against homosexuality so it's quite ironic that he was caught in this position. I wouldn't imagine that anything else he says about being against homosexuality could be taken very seriously from this point forward.