Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Constitution

What is it about the U.S. Constitution that evangelical conservatives hate so much? I have repeatedly asked my Republican friends that question and they don’t want to answer. What do they have against other people having choices about how they choose to live their lives? The conservatives I know aren’t satisfied with living their own lives, they want to force everyone else by law to live theirs modeled after them and their personal moral and religious outlook relative to issues such as public schools, obscenity, euthanasia, abortion and homosexuality. They believe that only Christians should be elected to public office. Not only that, they think they must be a certain type of Protestant who holds certain moral and religious views. I always point to the fact that our Constitution specifically says there shall be no religious tests to hold public office and that the Constitution is a purely secular civil document which never mentions Jesus or God. The Christian identity movement and many other evangelical groups deny the reality of this and insist that the U.S. was created as a Christian nation, which it was not. What is it about the truth that they have such a problem with? Of course their goal is not the fulfillment of our Constitutional Democracy as our founders intended. Their goal is a theocracy molded after their view of Christianity. The Republican Party has exploited this group greatly in the last twenty five years culminating in “w” and his gullible followers. I just wish one of them would be honest enough to tell the truth for once about their real intentions?

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