imagination

Imagine if you were a female, working at a government job like teaching or firefighting having joined a union was raped by some man running down the street who was horny and a deviate, you happened to be a Muslim were born to parents who were illegal immigrants but was born in this country and have lived here for 20 years having graduated high school, and oh by the way also happened to be a Lesbian wanting to marry the woman you loved.

Imagine as a female that some state legislatures figure your work does not equal the same amount of pay as a male doing the same job. Imagine the legislators explaining to you that men are more capable have more responsibility to families, history has demonstrated that men just make more salary. And oh by the way the Bible tells us that women should lead the home and men should be the bread winner.

Imagine being a teacher, a firefighter working for a state or municipality and some state legislatures say that working in a government job is a cowards way to work. You as a teacher and firefighter are living off the dole of the state, county, city. Imagine legislators telling you that unions are the bane of America, that negotiating for fair salary and benefits is a Socialist plot to over throw Capitalism. Oh and then add when did God join a union.

Imagine being raped, taken sexually without any free will and being told that perhaps you really egged the perp on and had you been less seductive he would not have violated your body. Imagine if legislatures said that if you have a lemon you should make lemon aid, or stuff happens and we can learn from that stuff, or was it really rape. Imagine legislators proclaiming that most incidents of rape are just encouraging advances from women. Oh yeah, God would not let something bad like that happen so it was in his plan.

Imagine being a Muslim wanting build a new mosque a new shrine a new place to worship. Imagine city or country managers telling you that permits for such a building just are not that easy to come by. Imagine that legislatures want to pass no Mosque zones. Imagine that legislators assume if you are a Muslim that you will want to change American law into Sharia Law so no matter what nothing Muslim will be permitted to be built. And, yeah this is a Christian nation founded by God and thus who never said church state separation.

Imagine being born in this country, living here all 20 years of your life... in America. You want to become a citizen of this nation, the only nation you know. Imagine wanting to attend a state university, you know the university of the state in which you have spent the first 20 years of your life. Imagine legislatures saying no matter what the Constitution says about children born in this country, you must go back home to the land you know nothing about but the place your parents were born. Imagine legislators saying even if you were born in the US, we don't recognize your love for apple pie and mom, so you must leave. Uh, huh and being told God is white and traveled from Bethlehem with the Christian Founding Fathers.

Imagine if you are a Lesbian have been with your partner for 20 years, just met a woman you love and want to get marry because you ARE in love. Imagine being told that even if I am on my second or third spouse, beat my spouse, am derelict in my marriage, practice adultery, infidelity I have more right to marry then you. Imagine legislators voting in unison to save the Institution of Marriage from the demons of the LGBT community. Imagine legislators bemoaning that if Anna love Eve then Joe and Mary's marriage will fail and families will fall. And yep your wanting to marry will have God sending thunder bolts to America because love is not an important feature when marrying.

Imagine how all of the above is actually taking place in many state in the Unites States of America now, and imagine how awful and horrible it will be to imagine America in 2012 if more of the Republican/Baggers win jobs as legislators in state legislatures and how many more states will behave.

Imagine what happens if you stay home one more voting cycle because you think your vote does not count, or the Dems are bad, or the Republican/Baggers have your concerns in mind. Imagine if your sister, mother, aunt, daughter were raped, if your brother father, son wanted to earn a fair wage and join a union. Imagine if our child was born in this country, only knows life in America and must be deported. Imagine falling in love, or being in love with a person for 8, 10, 15, 25, 30 years but being told that your love is less then someone who beats their spouse, cheats on their spouse, and has taken a spouse two, three or four times over. Imagine being told that God hates you for no other reason then you happen to be a women, raped, in a union, Muslim, a child of an immigrant, of Gay.

It would be hard to imagine, except if you tune into any talk show, read any paper, browse any Internet service, talk to anyone you work with, or include in your family, then you need no imagination because fact is scarier then fiction.

Imagine once any of the horrendous attacks against people you think are not like you happens to you. imagine who is next!