http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4760994Get into everyone's private parts, men, women, transgendered, everyone. What's next, reinstating the sodomy laws in Texas that were struck down by the SCOTUS?
Or driving people to move to other states to live with a modicum of peace and dignity, economic freedom and able to live their lives without the bedroom police?
What's next, herd those who don't or can't in good conscience follow their doctrines, into camps to be exterminated, as some on the right have been pushing for years, or for wars between the states who do and don't agree with the Christian Taliban?
The American Taliban party is taking over the government, and this theocracy won't be any less stifling to free thinking, causing people to live in a constant state of fear than the original Afghan model.
If Texas had a Democratic governor and a Democratic legislature, imagine what that legislature and governor would be doing now.
All this is coming from an oppressive fundamentalist world view that pushes privatization, de-funding of the social safety net, removing environmental and worker protections, and dates from the defeat of Governor Ann Richards by George Bush and minions.
Even with their so-called freedom and liberty voices like Alex Jones and their so-called patriot movement, they allow all of this to happen to the people and environment in Texas, because they are the new Christian crusaders, when all is said and done.
In the meantime, my friends there say there is no difference living in Texas than Mexico with a government that does not respond to their hopes or needs in the slightest, but openly reveres and excuses all actions of oligarchs in the Name of God.
I feel badly that a once progressive state is turning into this. But it's hardly unexpected when senators from Texas have called for hunting down Democrats with dogs and Rush calls for a bounty on liberals like they are game animals, and FOX probably holds the largest audience share.