History Lesson for the day!
I got an interesting comment in an email concerning the rights that our country was founded on. The reason for the comment was a discussion against the Republicans and their imagined crusade against the Gay community. Because I didn't vote for Obama, that makes me a hate-filled racist. So here is my response to that.
I have never proclaimed support for:
People who view homosexuals as an abomination, though I don't doubt that there are plenty of people who do but I don't support them and if they spoke close to my hearing would get a very large and loud piece of my mind.
Or people who want to revoke any possibility of homosexuals sharing in the same rights as other American citizens. I personally have no problem with it! I applaud your quest!
Or religious nuts who use a veil of morality and Christian family values to promote evil. As a matter of fact, hold on to your panties, luv! But I have serious doubts about most organized religion! Imagine that! I am a firm believer in God just not very happy with Man-made religion. My vote or fear of the present government has nothing to do with my belief in God or Christian values.
Nor do I support bigotry and hatred-my comments never once referred to that nor does it speak of intolerance or that because you're a homosexual, you have no rights!
I have no doubt that you have suffered greatly and I'm sorry about that. However, most people have suffered greatly at one time or the other for many reasons therefore homosexuals can't corner the market on suffering! It is not an excuse to wear a large chip on your shoulder and attack people with some imagined offense if their views don't match yours. I am not a political monster out to throw the gays into some brimstone fire! Everything is not a vendetta against gays! NOR is religion! Or God! Or moral values some evil plot against you! Granted there are plenty of narrow-minded religious idiots who come off that way but I am not one of them!
Just because I didn't vote for Obama doesn't mean I am an intolerant, dare I saw the word...yes, I shall say it...Replublican! How is my fears of the state of the government make me the enemy? All I said was that I feared what the new president would do. I would feel that way if it was McCain elected too. Would that have made me evil too? A bigot? I fear what is happening and Obama's Change-talk not that he is a bi-racial man. I could care less how many races he has coursing through his veins. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, we're all mutts! None of us can say that we are one race or another, really cause we have all mixed someone along the gene line of our families. So what! This has nothing to do with my fears!
I haven't professed support for people who wish to amend the constitution, which should never happen. And that won't happen if the "people" are watchful and not complacent.
And finally...You said: "This country was founded on the basis of the separation of church and state. The pilgrims came to America to escape religious governmental tyrrany in England and have the freedom to establish their own government separate from the church."
Correction, dear friend....they came to America for freedom of religion. They were persecuted for their religious beliefs which happened to become political beliefs because the government of the time and place did in fact establish a "Religion" and govern how it was practiced. The Pilgrims wanted to establish a government that wouldn't demand that they worship a certain way. Well...I highly support our religious freedom which is not necessarily the "seperation of church and state" that so many think it is. As a matter of fact: the phrase "seperation of church and state" comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist in which he refers to the 1st amendment-freedom of speech as "a wall of seperation" between church and state. It is not in the constitution but is implied by the 1st amemdment. It did not mean that religion should be banned from governing laws. It was about 70 years later that the supreme court actually quoted him and used the phrase from that time forward, distorting it to suit the needs of others. Do you want to hear the truth about why he wrote that phrase? Well, I'll tell ya! Jefferson's purpose in that letter was to calm the fears of the Danbury, Connecticut Baptists, who were worried about their religious beliefs and so he told them that this wall had been erected to protect them. The metaphor "wall" was used exclusively to keep the state out of the church's business, not to keep the church out of the state's business.
The constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Both the free exercise clause and the establishment clause place restrictions on the government concerning laws they pass or interfering with religion. No restrictions are placed on religions except perhaps that a religious denomination cannot become the state religion.
And that is my thought for the day.
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