In limbo, in Michigan, same-sex couples are denied the right to be called legally married even after they were permitted to say I do…legally! No big deal, after all they are just a handful of Gays or Lesbians and aren’t they used to being second class citizens anyway? Freedom in Michigan is not a right it is earned, politicized; and just like same sex attraction it is not natural. Let those uppity Gays suffer for wanting equality, they put the burden of proof on themselves and they disrupted the happily ever marriages of so many heterosexuals. In the nation state of Michigan the majority will decide the fate of the minority. In the nation state of Michigan equality is to be doled out by a handful of politicians who only cater to the very lowest denominator of bigots, racists and homophobes. God is the decider of all things red, white and blue in Michigan.
God is also sitting at the bench at the Supreme Court as the Justices decide if corporations whom they declared as people can, like the folks in Michigan use their religion to deny any civil rights to the citizens of the United States. Hobby Lobby’s owners don’t like contraception and despise abortions no mater why or how. The Supreme Court will decide if Hobby Lobby can deny its employees access to health insurance to over the costs of either contraception or an abortion. If the Court decides in favor of a corporations religious values, just image what might be next. Perhaps the same corporate citizens don’t like the Gay life-style, the Gay-agenda finding either one to be anti Christian values. Imagine how easy it might then be to say how disgusting and against religious values it would be to hire anyone from the LGBT community? Don’t tree on my religious freedoms I am a corporation a person and whom I hate is based on how much I love God.
God has become a powerful source for decision making in a nation that was founded on both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. It seems any kind of hate is purified if right before you state the hate you insist God told you to do so. As long as you site some edited chapter and verse from YOUR Bible, insist that God has spoken to you in your sleep, or define others as charlatans, or the devil, you seem to be permitted to deny equality, freedom and justice. Far right, Evangelical Christians have chided and derided the Muslims for their jihadist attempt at religious warfare in the world, but now have cozily copied the same religious warfare game plan in this nation. You are either with Jesus or not they proclaim. Jesus hates the poor, carries a gun, does’t care for the elderly and certainly did not win the Revolutionary War to have all men and women gain a pursuit of happiness.
The cycle of religious oppression is gaining momentum. Not oppression to worship and enjoying your moment with God, but oppression for those who have the audacity to think that the Founding Fathers meant what they said about separation between church and state. Religious freedoms are not keeping America free at all.
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