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When I was a kid the Christian Right used to swear that it would be happy with a moment of silence in our public schools. Then they wanted student led prayer. Then they wanted prayers led by teachers.
When I was a kid the Christian right used to swear that it was primarily interested in stopping abortion, contraption seldom coming into the discussion. Then they wanted to eliminate certain kinds of contraception because they believed those forms of contraception destroyed life at the moment of conception. Now the truth has finally come out. They want to eliminate contraception all together and force their sexual mores onto the entire population, namely celibate lifestyles until marriage.
This, of course is just another stab at an establishment of religion. In a Christian Republic, or a theocracy if you will, the schools would be geared up to spread the Christian faith. So of course they're going to take what they can get piece by incremental piece. In a Fundamentalist Theocracy, gays and lesbians would become second class citizens--if not subjects of public execution--so of course the Fundamentalist have to begin by denying gays and lesbians employment, marriage, and adoption rights. In a Fundamentalist theocracy women would be subservient to men, and to achieve that end the Fundamentalists want to take away a woman's right to control her own body and destiny. They began with abortion. They they expanded their demands to include certain forms of contraception. Then they revealed their true colors, exclaimed that God wants us to live celibate lives until marriage, when in fact what they really mean, is "honey, back to the bad old days of knocked up, barefoot, and no control over your own body and destiny." The fitly Fundamentalist bastards know that they can't effect an outright theocracy all at once because that really would violate the Constitution, so what they're trying to impose the various beliefs of their Fundamentalist "Christianity" piecemeal on a nation of approximately 300 million people. To which I ask, why should a maximum of 28 percent of the American people, of a particular group of one particular faith be allowed to impose ANY of its values on the nation as a whole?
If they want to pray (some might say that they prey) let them do so in designated times and places as other extracurricular groups are required to do. If they don't ant to use contraception they should get out their thermometers and hope to God the damned thing is properly calibrated. If they want to be celibate they themselves know what is best for them and how they can best maintain their celibate lifestyles until marriage. If they are offended by homosexuality they can stop snooping n what their gay or lesbian neighbors are doing and not engage in homosexual acts. In other words, it's about time that these Pecksniffian Puritans began to mind their own business and removed the motes from their own eyes.
Because I for one, am getting a little sick and tired of being told how to live, think, and behave by a vocal minority with the fanaticism of a Reverend Jim Jones and the collective IQ of a used condom.
