Reply #21: It is a little ironic...but fitting. [View All]

[JohnnyCougar]

Bush, the televangelist President being decapitated by one of true faith.

I attribute my liberalness to my Jesuit education. It seems ironic, since it was an all male, upper class school. My Dad brought me up on Rush Limbaugh and Mark Belling. But I think it was partially my Jesuit education that turned me around...that and my Mom.

Most of the students there were raised in very conservative families. By senior year, many were moderated or completely flipped. Of course, there were some skinheads there that would never change, but that happens everywhere. Many of us were ridiculed around the city...since it was an all boys school, we were dubbed as "Homo High." So maybe that had something to do with it too. We were taunted for being gay, even though few of us were. That whole experience just made the homophobic, narrow outlook seem even more ridiculous.

But everyone was forced to do service, liek read to inner city school children, pick up trash in the ghettos, etc. My senior year I helped out in a classroom with emotionally disabled children. For guys that are coming from the suburbs from wealthy conservative families, that is a pretty humbling experience.