"STOP SHOVING YOUR AGENDA AND LIFESTYLE DOWN OUR THROATS!!!"
You hear that a lot from the Right. Like, every time something comes up that doesn't color exactly within the lines of what they consider 'the right way of thinking about shit'.
Lets take abortion. People like me think that it's a personal decision between a woman and whoever SHE wants involved in making it- family, doctor, God, no one...HER choice. Beyond that, it's a legal medical procedure so no matter what we personally think about it...it's none of our damn business. If somehow pro-choice were really pro-abortion and being 'shoved down the throats' of those opposed to it, we pro-choicers would be pushing for every pregnancy to end in abortion. Every one.
But we're not. Because we're pro-CHOICE.
How about gay marriage? If you are in a committed relationship with someone and desire to have the legal and social benefits that marriage provides, that's your choice and none of our damn business. If somehow pro-gay marriage people were really into 'shoving that gay agenda down everyone's throats' we would insist that everyone marry someone of their own sex. Everyone.
But we don't. Because we want marriage equality,not something narrowly defined by a twisted interpretation of the Christian bible...since there are many definitions of marriage in that self-same bible including how many concubines you can have and the forced marriage of a widow to her brother-in-law. Also some neat ways you can marry slaves and the women you rape.
And about that Bible.
Until the Commie Scare of the '50's, there was no "In God We Trust" anywhere and "Under God" wasn't in our pledge. Before that the money said "E Pluribus Unum" and the pledge went "One nation indivisible". So we went from "Out of many, one" to "One True God" and from "we may be many different people but we are united" to "the Christian God rules this joint!"
Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion if you so choose, because we are not a theocracy and there's NO WAY any god of any religion should figure prominently because we do not have a National Religion. Let that sink in for a sec and then segway to the many fundamentals on the Right who are screaming for America to 'turn back to God' and the insistence that we twist our laws around their bible. Exactly who is destroying the Constitution?
So lets think about this for just a second.
Exactly which 'side' is shoving their agenda on everyone else while hollering about PERSECUTION and the KILLING OF AMERICA?
Which 'side' is clamping down on the freedoms of others in order to force them to conform to their narrow view of right/wrong?
Hint. It ain't the Left.
love it when you get fired up...it's been awhile! Hope all is well.
ReplyDeleteOn labels, you could've used "Amendments 4, 14, & 1". And it's always fun to include reference to the Treaty of Tripoli ( It was submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, receiving ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797, and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797.) when addressing #1 on religion: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".
ReplyDeleteIf John Adams didn't have a grasp on "Original Intent" (thank you, Justice Scalia!), nor the rest of the elected body back in 1797, I don't know who could have better.
Honestly, using their own ammunition against them is so much easy fun. "Smaller government!" then "regulate the womb!, sperm too, while you're at it!", and "put OUR God in schools, & all public places!", "regulate marriage!". Seriously? People blind to that level of their own hypocrisy deserve all the high blood pressure and stress hormones you can visit upon them.