Not in Kansas anymore

In the state of Kansas, based on nothing more than perceived bias and bigotry of the Bible, the Legislature is about to begin a pogrom of apartheid and discrimination. Ignoring the U.S. Constitution, forgetting the U.S. history of inclusion and integration the Legislature of Kansas, pretending that they are a Christian nation governed by a Theocratic body the Kansas state House advanced a bill on Tuesday aimed at granting public and private employees the right to deny services, including unemployment benefits and foster care, to same-sex couples on the basis of religious freedom. The Bible instead of the U.S. Constitution was also preferred as law when the South decided that slavery was God’s will,when Virginia decided that integrated marriages was frowned upon by God, when Southern states as well as some in the mid west decided that the Bible stated clearly women should not vote and when the state of Texas decided that sodomy was a sin of Biblical proportions.

Using the argument that religious freedom to discriminate has more power then the the democratic principle of all men and women being equal, the Tea-Republicans of Kansas want to have a straights only platform of laws very similar to the whites only segregation. Straights can do all they want while homosexuals are restricted. In the Christian nation of Kansas the Constitution is a useless piece of paper, the founding of this nation to permit freedom from religious persecution, the denial of equality are proud principles pontificated by elected politicians serving no one but misinformed, uneducated, bigots, racists and homophobes using God as their scapegoat for their own human frailties. 

During the rise of Tea Party hypocrisy, somehow freedom of religion has become more important then freedom from religion. There is a big difference however between freedom of religion and freedom from religion. The first permits access to God any God. The later wants to permit God any God from being the sole decider of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in this nation. No one denies how you pray and to whom you pray. No one denies what book you read to abide by in a spiritual, emotional manner. But recently where there has been denial is in how a nation built on fair and balanced seems to want to limit your freedoms. In Kansas freedom seems to ring true to those who call themselves Christians and no one else.

Look closely at the laws in Kansas and don’t be fooled that what is happening there will not try to escape to other country/states in this nation. Freedoms have been challenged in states by limiting voting rights, denying medical coverage, cutting back nutritional needs, access for women to receive reproductive care. Freedoms have been limited or restricted in other states not based on what the Constitution of this nation says, but what a bunch of insecure, self-serving religious zealots  have interpreted from a Bible. Pretty soon this policy of religious segregation will not be in Kansas anymore.