I knew I would be successful in coaxing all the Constitution Haters out of the closet with my letter. They never fail to go for the bait and an opportunity to misrepresent the truth about the liberal founders of our country and the reality of our Constitution. It is obvious they are against free will and choice. That fact is as true today as is was then and their letters confirm it. The hypocritical nature of my detractors is that they don’t hesitate to say that if one doesn’t agree with “w’s” politics then you hate America and are for the terrorists but when that logic is turned around and directed at them the way I did concerning the Constitution they can’t take it. The distinction they don’t seem to comprehend is that I don’t advocate the issues they hate. My advocacy is for the freedom and liberty guaranteed in the Constitution. It is the height of intellectual dishonesty to deny the secular nature of the U.S. Constitution and I have never claimed that we should have a purely secular society. We are a religious people and we will continue to have a religious society as long as that is the case. To twist what I said and claim I said something I didn’t is very deceptive but typical of these conservatives. It’s ironic that conservatives today argue against our liberal founding fathers’ secular Constitution but at the same time get most of their ideas from an immoral right wing drug addict radio talk show host. I am a Christian who holds very similar religious views as my Christian friends but some falsely assume that since I don’t go along with their political views that I support the morality they rail against. Nothing could be further from the truth. My faith doesn’t think gambling, pornography and many other vices are moral but I don’t push to have my religion enacted as law. There is no virtue in NO freedom of choice. There is much disagreement in our society as to when human life begins and ends. If you want to believe it begins at conception, fine, but don’t expect everyone else to agree with you. Flesh and blood don’t define human life. The soul does. One would think that religious people would understand that. When the soul enters and leaves the human body is subject to debate and varies from person to person. Today fundamentalists want to force women to carry a fetus to term even when they have been raped or as a result of incest. They also believe in capital punishment for women and doctors who have abortions or perform them. There is much disagreement about this so why allow extremists to force their narrow religious views on everyone? Liberals don’t force their views on others by enacting laws to force conformity. They want to maintain Constitutional liberties and freedom of choice but that doesn’t mean they are less moral than others. In fact most liberals I know are more moral than the conservatives I know. They feel that each person has a right and responsibility to make choices using their own conscience. They don’t think the government should interfere in personal private matters. When did the Republican Party become the party of big brother interfering in the private lives of its citizens? It is comical how conservatives moralize about their favorite issues but ignore others. For example, how can we allow homosexuals to threaten the sanctity of divorce, uh I mean marriage? I think Jesus had something to say about divorce but I don’t recall him mentioning homosexuality. Heterosexuals don’t have a very good record of maintaining the sanctity of marriage. Who are they to cast stones? Just because alcohol is legal doesn’t mean you are forced to drink alcohol. It is a choice you are allowed to make. That is free will and liberty as guaranteed in the Constitution. I don’t teach my children to not murder or steal or support unnecessary war and the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq because of a law. I teach them Christian values because my faith and my Savior taught that. I don’t expect the government or our public schools to do what the Church and the family are responsible for. You can enact as many laws as you want but it will not do any good until the heart of people are changed. The government can’t do that. That is God’s purpose and should be the goal of God’s people. Many evangelicals have the warped view that we must enact laws and attain more political power to force people to change. How ironic that they seem to have more faith in the political power given by man than they do the power of God. Evangelical conservatives need to stay out of the personal lives of other citizens and allow them to make choices in the privacy of their homes. It is none of their business what decisions others make personally or within their families and their doctors. If they want religion taught in school rather than science, go to a private religious school, not a public school. You have that choice. Conservatives used to respect the right of privacy and work to prevent government from intruding in their private lives but now they are the party that wants to control and dictate every aspect of our lives as well as force their religion on everyone. That is wrong and not what our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution. Once again, the Constitution was intentionally written as a SECULAR document and intentionally excluded the words God or Jesus so as to maintain the separation between government and religion. If you don’t want separation of “Church and State” then tax exemption for Churches is out. Is that what religions want? If conservatives insist on ignoring history and the reality of the Constitution by forcing their religion to be incorporated into law, then they not only hate our Constitution they hate the principles and foundations that this country was built on. Tolerance, freedom and liberty are not unholy concepts. The Constitution can not be interpreted in such a way as to ignore the fundamental rights of citizens regardless how much you may disagree with your neighbor’s religion and politics. We don’t need another Spanish inquisition so don’t follow politicians and preachers who justify their agenda by using God for political purposes and declare any who disagree with them as being unchristian and unworthy to hold office. That is a lie and will only lead to our loss of freedom and independence as a sovereign nation and people.
Now, could we all hold hands and sing “Kum Ba Ya”?