I want to be in America

“I want to be in America, everything’s free in America, I want to be in America!”(America, West Side Story) The Dent County Commission of Missouri voters unanimously Monday to observe one year of “mourning” over the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision that Gay couples have the constitutional right to marry. The observance will in the lowering of the flags at the Dent County Courthouse and Judicial Building to half staff on the 26th day of the month from July 2015 to June 2016. the vote came after the Presiding Commissioner Darrel Skiles filed a letter into the public record protesting “the U.S. high court’s stamp of approval as what God speaks of as an abomination.” Daily Kos. There is a state flower, a state tree and now a state God of Missouri a God who of course can only be seen by the most homophobic, insecure, elected government officials who believe that Missouri is a Fascist/theocratic Christian nation state, which just happens to belong to the United States for convenience but in fact has nothing to do with the laws of that land. Jesus the guy with long blond hair and the fairest of white skin, who was the general of the Revolutionary War, the numero uno member of the NRA if not its founder, who believes corporations are people, is divine and because facts never mount to anything in the minds of the stupid, Jesus has spoken, and he hates the Gays!

“Oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain”(America)According to Mike Huckabee, we’re “criminalizing Christianity in this country by telling people who hold to an orthodox worldview of biblical marriage that if you still believe that … you will be guilty of discrimination, which could result in some kind of civil or criminal action against you.” Got that, Christians? You keep making noises about the Bible and the big government boogeymen will lock you up! (Salon) Never one to back down from the prophecy of a Bible which includes the selling of snake oil, cures for diabetes and the ever present evidence that the earth is only 6000 years old, a man on a mission to scam the most stupid of fearful folk is the lead general in declaring that because equality is a backbone of the United States his God is bit pissed. Not a bit pissed his Jesus, the real first president of the US of A might even descend from heaven one more time and just rid the world of the homosexual sinners. Mikey Huckabee ever at the ready to cater to the insecure, insane and inane among us loves the attention of making the dumb even dumber. Usually there is a war on Christianity around Christmas time you know the holiday where all offices are closed and government buildings erect a CHRISTMAS  tree, but now that the Gays actuality be treated like regular folk, Mikey has declared all hell is about to let lose!

“This land is your land this land is my land” (This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie) Except it isn’t, and won’t be until a majority of Americans re-read the US Constitution, decide that gerrymandered voting districts are a dictatorship, understand that there is a difference between Church and State, that the base of the T-Pub Party are people who believe reality TV is real and still believe that the Confederate War was Jesus’s choice, and of course are so fearful of their own sexuality as to hate anyone who is NOT! When justices of the peace still refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, while T-Pub potential candidates still rise in popularity because they can hate loud and proud, while FOX News still lies about fact and confuses fiction as truth, while billionaire puppet masters pull the stings on disingenuous shoddy politicians, and until people stop thinking that the stupid are so stupid they will just shrivel up and die, actually do something positive, this land will never be your land or my land, but a land that fades into the stupid.