Kurt Vonnegut may have said it best, "There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason to hate without reservation, to imagine God Almighty hates with you, too." and yet the party of the administration in power continues along this misguided course as it steadily reinforces its mentality of group think as we head into the next "presidential election".
This week a great deal of hoopla was made of Rudy Guilianni picking up the endorsement of Pat Robertson and his goon squad. First and foremost any good Italian New Yorker should be absolutely embarassed that such a man and his cronies, who have traditionally shunned/bashed italians, even want to whoo him let alone endorse him. Fred Thompson was strutting his endorsement from the RTL party on tv this morning. Again, why would a "true conservative" want the endorsement of a one issue party whose sole platform is the invasion of privacy and government control over individual behavior. The answer folks is quite simple, religious, in this case christian, control of polotics. Beginning with reagan and continuing even more forcefully with our current dictator, there has been a overt siege on the seperation of church and state. This is not a slow and steady erosion, this is an all out attack with sledge hammers and explosives. Really this rant should apply to all religions, and even to those who lack religion, because no single groups beliefs should reign into or over the political philosophies which conflict, comprmise, and ultimately legislate in ours, or any, country. Theocracy, or state mandated atheism for that matter, damages the democratic process because it brings with it certain preconceived prejudices from all sides, those for and those in opposition to these notions. For example, I do not like abortion, but I am not narrow minded enough to believe that my "feelings" should prevail as law. Laws are not necessarily there as codes of moral enforcement, tell me what's immoral about speeding. And morality can be woefully subjective in the eyes of the law anyways. Hence one is not charged with "killing" they are charged with murder because killing in self defense is not a crime. Laws are more often than not based upon mores and tradition and evovle to fit the culture, hence the forward progress of civil rights laws, that is, until this current administration. So i say let's annoy the christians. Not harrass or hurt but annoy! If you know any, associate with any, let them know their religion is fine just keep it out of our politics.
