It was hard for me to sit through this BS, but I made it. It's amazing what a total disconnect there is on the right wing from the basic realities of our constitution and our system of government. The source of all our freedoms is NOT Christianity, NOR any other religion, but it IS the separation of church and state. When our nation was founded, the separation clause was put in there precisely to avoid the kinds of Christian religious wars that had so plagued Europe for the previous three centuries. These so-called political pundits on the right need to go back and take ten years of remedial high school civics and US government classes!
Bill O' and Ann do not even have the rudimentary political common sense to realize that you CAN'T have any guarantees of freedom UNLESS you protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. And this is especially true in the domain of religion and personal beliefs. Majority rule is not majority tyranny, but it easily can be without constitutional safeguards like the separation of church and state.
The Christian right whines that it is constantly persecuted when it is the one that persecutes and bullies other minority religions, either politically, or by seeking to convert them to Christianity by duplicitous and deceptive means. What Bill and Ann are calling "courage" is actually arrogance and insensitivity to the beliefs and convictions of others.
If you want to find a religion that is really persecuted in this country, you don't need to look that far, or that hard - it's Islam, which Christianity calls a satanic or false religion. Colin Powell hit the nail on the head before the '08 elections when he responded to accusations of Obama being a Muslim by saying that even if he WERE a Muslim, that should not make any difference.
A presidential candidate should be judged not by the color of his skin, nor by his religious affiliation or beliefs, but by the content of his character, as well as his basic intelligence, competence and ability to govern - standards which put our current president head and shoulders above his so-called "Christian" predecessor, who committed the most stupid and heinous acts while in office.
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