Originally posted by Seagoon
What's the difference?
This week alone produced, in quick succession, a bill to ban abortion in Mississippi...
The Supreme Court ruling that allows anti-choice goons to terrorize girls when they visit their doctors...
A love letter from new SC justice Alito to Dobson...
South Dakota's bill to ban abortion including pregnancies resulting from rape and incest...
Domino's Pizza founder and devout Catholic Tom Monaghan's official breaking ground and building an entirely new town giving complete control of its denizen's to him - based on his strict interpretation of Catholism - where, amongst other restrictions, pharmacies aren't even allowed to carry contraceptives...
Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considering a bill that would name Christianity as the state's official "majority" religion, recognizing "a Christian god," and the protecting of the "majority's" right to express their religious beliefs without similar protections of any other religion, saying that "a greater power exists," yet only Christianity receives (in its own words) "justified recognition"....
Walmart finally buckling and agreeing to stock the morning after pill despite the initial heavy Christopath protesting and Walmart's initial acquiescence to them.
Just this week. Alone.
Ya know what? If I was a chick, I'd make a personal policy and tell all of my friends to just quit ****ing you guys. No protection against pregnancy, no protection against STD's, no protection in the event of any accident means no sex for you bozos... whatsoever... and you don't even have porn to fall back on. Then brace yourself against the gale force winds caused by the shuffling of papers that would see these laws redacted faster than you could say I-haven't-been-laid-in-eight-months.
Anyways....
In my remarks to you, Seagoon, I say "You".... but I'm not talking about you personally. I admit that it can easily come across that way. That's my bad. When I say "You" I am speaking about all that "You" represent. I trust that you don't bring politics into your sermons, but collectively, "You" are being investigated by the IRS on a massive scale for the rampant violations of campaign laws. "You," it's widely accepted, were responsible for putting Bush over the top in 2004. "You" are the reason that Bush diverted his plane from yet another vacation in order to legislate the sad and otherwise intimate death of a Florida woman, and "You" strong-arm this administration with great success in matters of war and domestic policy.
"You" are more a part of the equation that is Government and governance today than has
ever, EVER been the case since America's rejection of Theocracy and Monarchy oh so long ago, which by the way, was the very
basis upon which America was founded.
It matters not that you distance yourself from your compadres when it comes to policy. Preach it or not, you are a part of it, and support it. I dare you to tell me otherwise with respect to any of these issues.
And despite your attempt to distance yourself from the world's other fundamentalists, at the heart of it, it all comes down to one single thing. The
control of other people based on your personal beliefs. Eastern fundamentalists want the same things as you, even though you might squabble over the margins.
I'll make this easy.
I don't want any government or any institution to have any control over mine nor anyone's personal behavior so long as that behavior doesn't bring harm to someone else's right to same.
Guys like me? It's not complicated. We like: “…establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” Not much to it.
But whoah boy - that's a little too fast and loose for the Fundamentalists. Both "you" and "them."
You folks have more in common than you think.
