If only you were really talking about red and blue, but you're not, you're actually talking about religion. Maybe I shouldn't, but I have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.
I'm talking about people like myself who will be voting for candidates based on our beliefs and the long held traditions of our great country. Take my sister's church in Orlando for example... all 1200+ eligible voters in their membership all turned out to the polls and voted early for President Bush.
If Christians becoming even more politcally active and speaking up for our beliefs sounds vindictive it's too bad from my perspective.
This is about making a stand againist the left who preach tolerance, but their actions are based on intolerance.
I am fired up more than ever! A passionate conservative Christian is more powerful than any liberal can ever imagine.
It's all good until the Federal Government gets involved.
The biggest problem we have in this country is that the Federal Courts get involved in these local disputes.
The 1st Amendment says: Congress shall make no law respecting religion or the free exercise thereof.
Then the more recent equal rights amendment militated against the first amendment. Now the communities are required by the judiciary to make laws so that local communities have to follow a certain religious script. The 'equal rights under the law' is construed to require these communities to grant people the right to not be offended.
And that is the situation in which we find ourselves. The misuse of the ERA, the tinkering with the constitution has caused a tyranny to erupt from the federal government which we will not be able to control without the christians of this country rising up to take the government back from the atheists. That way we can bring back the tolerance.
Now when I say 'bring back the tolerance' I mean that we need to return control of the communities back to the communities. Give the states control of the states and reduce the power of the federal government to control behaviors. Along the same lines, I am pleased to see that many states are having to raise their local taxes. This local effect will effect changes into the government as the populations vote out the wasteful politicians for more efficient people. This is the efficiency of the local community to manage their own expenses and affairs.
So with respect to this 'person' who wants to turn his back on the flag and misuse his office in order to make political statements, if the local community wants to vote him out then let it be so. If that local community wishes to establish Christianity as their religion of choice then that is okay too. If that local community wants to establish islam as their religion of choice that is their choice. The federal Courts MUST NOT get involved in that choice. And where a person does not feel 'comfortable' or 'welcomed' in a community, there are other communities for him to go to. Or perhaps that person can establish himself in that community without the help of the federal government, perhaps that person can be tolerant and respectful of the community. Perhaps that community requires a lesson in tolerance. That lesson cannot be taught by Judicial Fiat!
The federal courts might get involved in the MOST AGGREGIOUS cases of outright bigotry, crossburnings and lynch mobs. But to the extent the Feds are active today they have become the problem.
It's all good until the feds get involved.
Which fears have no basis in historical or present reality.
Your neighbors whom you apparantly fear are the most kindly and tolerant people in the history of humankind.
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I think you're overstating the problem just a little bit.
' have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.'
Geez, can you be a bigger drama queen or pansy?