I know it is a few years away, but already I am having a bad gut feeling about the upcoming Presidential election of 2008. You listen to people like John McCain and the other Republicans and their stance on equality and you shudder. You sort of give a pass to people like Clinton when she admits she isn’t sure of her stance, thinking well its early in the season.
Then you hear how Rudi is and you sort of smile, figuring no way the Republicans will support him in 2008. After all he is for same sex marriage, Condoms, and other radical liberal views about equal for all, not just some exclusive members of a private club no one really knows about. Then you listen to the Democrats fair haired up comer, Barack Obama and you shudder all over again.
While he may tip toes around Condoms and suggests actually they might be worhtwhile, it is his stance on marriage and involvement of the Churches that has me petrified. Like its bad enough as it is with their influence on politics, and to think it might be worse in the coming years is terrifying. Not because they spread the word of GOD, but because they spread racism and bigotry under the guise of spreading GODs words.
He said men and women often are “contracting HIV because sex was no longer part of a sacred covenant, but a mechanical physical act.” He said government programs cannot solve that problem, but churches can make a real difference by providing people with a moral framework to make better choices. (full story)
The notion that Churches can call the shots is beyond me. What I believe in is not for the State, on any level, to determine. If I wish to seek a meaningful relationship, then I should be able to. What gets me is these religious zealots don’t see that. What they see is some boogey man horning in on their supposed sacred rights. WRONG!
It is really very simple. As a citizen of any country that is democratic, I should automatically be granted the same rights and protection available to any other person. I should have those rights without fights, without rancor or without some Pastor’s blessings. They are rights of the nation, and what goes on in those Churches is for them and their GOD. It is not my right to interfere just as it is not their right to deny any minority rights they enjoy, simply because they are a majority. That isn’t democracy, but Tyranny.
