There are many times I am disappointed in my state of Kansas.....

[KansasVoter]

But today I am not! I am shocked a jury in this state didn't have one nutty fundie hang the jury in the Roeder abortion killer case.

I am actually proud Kansas citizens found this pathetic idiot guilty in 37 minutes.

After Fred Phelps, banning Evolution from textbooks and Sam Brownback we finally did something right!

[livetohike]

1. Yay for the Kansans who sat on this jury and didn't waste

time/money coming to their guilty verdict :toast:.

[Tippy]

2. K&R....I'm Proud of Kansas too...I'm from TN and I am sure he would have gon free here

[KansasVoter]

3. I feel your pain!

[DURHAM D]

4. I too am a Sunflower from the Sunflower State -

haven't lived there since 1967 and I am proud to call Kansas my home - for a change.

Note: I am a life long liberal Democrat from the middle of the state. I am ethnic Methodist turned agnostic. Actually its not much of a transition. Methodism, as I was taught, is really about public service and community organizing.

I don't know what happened to that moderate state after I left - maybe too many of us left. But I still have a lot of family there, visit several times a year and everyone I know is to the left of moderate.

[KansasVoter]

5. Wow, you are lucky your friends are moderate!

I wish that was true for me. Too many friends who have money who think they are better than poor people. Don't realize they are lucky.

[DURHAM D]

6. Where I grew up everyone is a farmer or their parents/grandparents

were/are farmers. My great grandmother was a homesteader with six children - five girls and one boy (my grandfather). So I am a 4th generation Kansan and have three generations after me still in Kansas so we are a family with pretty deep roots in the dirt.

Everyone out there lives by the Golden Rule because survival and success is mostly about good luck with some hard work thrown in. As for poorer people - the community just simply helps them out because they know that there but for the grace of mother nature go I.

[slackmaster]

7. I got out in 1962 but still have plenty of roots there

I don't miss the chiggers or the supercell thunderstorms.

[petersjo02]

8. An Iowan here.

I thought to myself as the proceedings wound down today that Kansas has much to be proud of. The judge, the jury, the law enforcement people, everything. Just a beautiful sight to see. Today I'm proud of Kansas. Hats off to all of you.