equality simple

Equality, how come the mere mention of equality, the act of permitting people to have the same rights is so often times decreed a curse brought forth by the Devil? How come, so often times is the mere mention of you and I, me and you sharing the same rights so seemingly associated as a God awful act? Why is it that once the word equality is spoken many who pretend that God is their Lord and Savior, swear that blasphemy and Beelzebub have both been spoken and conjured forth?  

Southern Preachers and Pastors stood on their bully pulpit in front of statues and portraits of Jesus Christ thumping on the Bible insisting to their congregation that the Negro was created as less human then the white man. Ministers across the nation swore while holding a Bible in their right hand that once women were given the right to vote or work for the same salary as men families would begin their demise shouting that after all it was Adam who was created first and Eve only his rib. God may have created life on Earth but God according to these self appointed soldiers for God never ever had reason to make all of his creations equal.

Tenari Maafala, the President of Hawaii’s police union and an active police officer with the Honolulu Police Department, who testified that he would never enforce a law requiring same-sex marriage. “You would have to kill me”, he told law makers. Maafala said that same-sex marriage is contrary to his religious views and, “I stand by my beliefs.” (Huff Post Politics) The Governor of Alabama stood in front of that state’s university shouting down the Federal marshals that they would have to shoot him before he let any Negro enroll or attend classes. He insisted being a Christian and all that his Lord and Savior told him was the only law he needed to obey.

In a nation founded not only on a freedom for religious belief but FROM religious intolerance is once again finding itself struggling with a simple matter of democracy asking if all it’s citizens are created equal. In a nation whose history when read for facts (not altered, annotated or  abridged) was based on a divide of Church and State has found itself in a religious dilemma in deciding who is fair game for equality and who by the word of their God (not our Constitution) does not deserve it. Equality sounds so simple but for simpletons it seems so contentious.