re: #210 ausador

Typical social conservative religious right nuttery, I understand why they want to dictate morals, behavior, and beliefs to everyone else, that is obvious. What isn’t so obvious is when or if the Republican legislators are going to realize that by giving these people what they want they are driving away everyone else.

Damn few people want a theocracy in this country, moves like this one make it appear as though the GOP supports the idea though, that scares a lot of people sh*tless. One wonders if the religious right is going to become even more frantic and strident as more and more people turn away from the church (and by extension the GOP)? Atheist and agnostic numbers have doubled in this country over the last twenty years to 16.1%, add to that the deists (no personal god) that are now up to almost 12% of the population. Can the theocrats not see that their own hateful actions are what is responsible for driving people from the church?

It isn’t the gays, lack of forced prayer in the schools, evolution, or reproductive rights that are killing the church. It is their turning the message of love, fellowship, and brotherhood that Jesus taught into one of bigotry, narrow-mindedness, and irrationality. I truly and deeply despise these people and their message, not that they will care, their arrogance is limitless…

The religious nutters sense the current vacuum in the GOP, and are doing everything in their power to fill it with their own theocratic vision of how America ought to be run. And they are doing so in part by whipping up fear among their followers, which is only being amplified by other goofballs like Beck, the resurgent John Birch Society and other fringe elements, all angling for a slice of the power they sense is available due to the GOP’s formal absense.

On the plus side, the vast majority of Americans are strongly opposed to such bilge. Most have been content to ignore it up ‘til now, as it’s largely played out in the background. Now that it’s in the forefront, it may finally be possible to purge the Bible thumpers from the GOP for good, and reclaim Conservatism - which has no room at all for those who seek to intrude on the private lives of citizens or force a particular brand of religion down the throats of everyone in the country.

The GOP’s message to the religious right ought to be “Get the fuck off my lawn!”