Hum, spoken like the neighbors kid next door who just came out of the closet, switched religions and suddenly is far brighter and smarter than any so narrow minded Christian could ever be.
Nah. I was the sick kid marginalized and demonized by a Christian community and accused of everything you said and worse. Good grades, never a trouble maker, but there was no way I could actually be sick: I must have been crazy, or on drugs, gay and/or sleeping around and getting unheard of diseases.
What's funny to me is how many groups of society that Christians often attempt to legislate against happen to be the only groups that would accept me as a kid (immigrants, homosexuals, dope smokers, heavy metal and punk rock musicians). Anyway, they're all so deadset against anything "conservative" because of the bad history that they become vulnerable to socialist/commie-lite propoganda. I can't help but feel they could be cured of their political delusions if they weren't met with so much hostility by the more logical economic side. And either way, we need a freedom party. We're down to choosing who is going to lose freedom next, already marginalized individuals? already taxed businesses? already taxed consumers? All the politicians agree: someone's gonna have to give up what they have left.
I think its time for a new conservative revolution, and nothing could appeal to the broader American public than freedom from federal interference in personal AND business matters. Whadda concept, I mean, before Bush that type of language was actually written in the Republican Party Platform. (And yes, when he got the nomination back in 2000 he changed the platform and limited government was deleted.)
Pure freedom is the ONLY alternative to socialism. Many on the religious right are merely inventing a new form of economically friendly religious socialism.