Politicians – Judge Them By Their Deeds

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“Go out and preach the gospel. And if you must, use words.” – St. Francis of Assisi

"This week I watched the GOP round-table debate. It still startles me to hear words and moral claims from candidates who must believe we’ve never seen their deeds. I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state … but let’s suppose we were a “Christian Nation,” not just a nation made up of Christians, Jews, Muslims, old believers, pagans, atheists and free-range hippies.

Could we, this new “Christian Nation,” pick the Beatitudes as our rule of law? Personally, I prefer the “Blessed Ares” to the “Thou Shalt Nots.” My guess is the current crowd of sanctimonious X-ians (Christians sans Christ; think “Merry X-mas”) would be at the front of the line crying out for the separation of church and state.

The greatest cries from the “Moral Majority,” misnamed because it is neither moral nor the majority, center on the right for women to choose to be mothers or not and the “homosexual agenda.” I’ve often wondered where these folks would be if there were a first trimester fetal test for gayness. Think about that for a second.

We hear the terms “sanctity of life” and “pro-life” from the GOP presidential candidates, our governor, local lawmakers and officials more often than we do from most preachers. The constant whining about how America has lost its morality fails to mention the crippling, insatiable greed of our corporations combined with the rapid rise of poverty and hunger among our citizenry.

If the same people cared about life over controlling the uterus of women in this country, we’d have single-payer health care.If they cared about life, coal companies wouldn’t be permitted to spread coal dust on schools and natural gas companies wouldn’t be able to frack drinking water supplies. Pollution is, after all, a natural enemy of life..."

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"The greatest cries from the “Moral Majority,” misnamed because it is neither moral nor the majority, center on the right for women to choose to be mothers or not and the “homosexual agenda.” I’ve often wondered where these folks would be if there were a first trimester fetal test for gayness. Think about that for a second."