Joe Scarborough, really!

“These are firmly held beliefs that people have had for thousands of years, and you can call it bigotry if you want to, but just because the attitude in the United States of America has changed over the past decade doesn't mean that we, on this set in Manhattan, should judge -- I'm sorry -- a florist in Little Rock, Arkansas, or in Indianapolis. I'm sure I'll get in trouble for this, but I'm sorry. Everybody is marching lockstep. I wouldn't do it, but at the same time if somebody believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman, I just wonder where [do] their rights stop? Can you no longer go into business as a florist in America if you believe that a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman is a sin? And I'm just asking a question.” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

Dear Joe Scarborough, it doesn’t matter if firmly held beliefs are held fast for eons and ages or just incorporated into your life a minute ago because once those beliefs discriminate and defuse equality for others they are no longer beliefs but sinister superstitions infused to keep us separate and not equal. When those beliefs are used to propagate old wives tales told by angry grandparents, parasitic parables preached by miserable pastors, or uneducated goons at the ready to fornicate on the truth, all those old beliefs do is alienate, divide and keep insecure people paranoid and petty.  When we live in a supposedly democratic nation and those firmly held  beliefs deny others protection from fair and equal, promoting bigotry and bias prompting Racism, Misogyny,Anti-Semitism,Homophobia a civil nation must immediately stop those beliefs in their track and replace them with firmly held principles.  

Come on Joe Scarborough remember when those firmly held beliefs included women should remain as chattel not working out of the family home and always kowtowing to her husband, and never voting? When those firmly held beliefs permitted back of the bus only for the Negro or colored only accommodations and housing? When those firmly held beliefs insisted that God never intended for the White Race to have sexual encounters with the Black Race let alone interracial marriage? There is no room in a free society Joe Scarborough for firmly held beliefs which most often limit the rich lives its citizens strive for. So far Joe Scarborough this is America and if you want to hate no one restricts you from doing so in your home with your family, or in your tax exempt church with your fellow parishioners, or at a KKK or John Birch meeting, you are free to misconstrue your Good Book into something bad in all those divine places. But once you pretend  these ignorant void of human or civil rights are firmly held beliefs that seem  like holy water you just permit the ignorant to drink from the cool aid of oily, grainy alcohol of hate, bigotry, and ignorance. Joe Scarborough are you considering a run for the T-Publican party’s presidential nomination you certainly sound as stupid  as such.