do i hear an amen!!

Jeb Bush said that he respects the democratic process and reluctantly agreed that even if the courts over ruled the will of the citizens in Florida and somehow or other felt that same-sex marriage was indeed lawful, he would NOT become one more nay sayer. And then he added as most Christian based T-Publican politicians do, a caveat, that no one should be angry with the good, kind folks who, believing that their religion usurps the democratic process, are really bad people. He insinuated that religious beliefs and those who carry them as a torch somehow or other have as much right to discriminate as do those who only want fair and equal treatment under the law. God comes first, and no matter how skewed your religious beliefs may be, they ALSO should be respected on the same level as equality for all. Jeb Bush is firm believer in freedom for religion and is certainly against the idea of freedom from religion.

Prior to 1967, It was assumed that God, one of the authors of the US Constitution, was not very  much a fan of interracial marriages. His self proclaimed spokesMEN, mainly from the Southern Baptist wing of Heaven, made it very clear that even if God did create man, he did so in a pecking order, and those with darker skin were not as created as equal as those whose skin shone white. Perhaps the South lost the Civil War, but Gods soldiers were not about to lose an even more precious war, one in which racial purity was the gold ring. Freedom may have come to the ex-slave but freedom never extends too far into the reaches of those who use religion as a weapon. Ministers both black and white stood upon their pulpits insisting this was a Christian nation and one tenant that stood above democracy was the ability of good men and good women to deal the Devil a blow and surely integrated marriage was a deadly ploy to be dealt with. In reality freedom only extends itself to the religious.

On Wednesday, January 7th, some very insecure men decided that the God they worship, or at least pretend to believe in was besmirched by a bunch of cartoonists and journalists in France. These terrorists, claiming to be an army of Allah decided that the mere parody of their God made their God weak and less God like and somehow in a whisper, or a direct command  promising them unending Virgin delights, this God who is powerless over a bunch of human reporters, demanded murder and mayhem must be committed to make this God a God once again. Denial of human rights was the priority of a group of individuals who wanted to act like God. These madmen believe in the sanctity of their religion and certainly like to demonstrate their disdain for anyone who doesn’t. God no matter how malevolent must be served.

Freedom it seems has different meanings depending with whom you speak. Those who proclaim a devout love of God, who insist their holy water is holier than anyone else’s, who clutch a book of prayer in one arm while their finger is on an assault weapon, who chant verses of the National Anthem wearing white robes, who permit charlatans to act as chaplains, love to use God as a scapegoat. Freedom it seems has a perverse meaning for those who want to rewrite American history insisting that the Founding Fathers established a Christian nation, a nation of freedom for religion and not from religion. God, any God for those so smothered in self taught hate, ignorance and suck on the tete of false idols, does not like just anyone, and he would would rather you murdered. maimed, defamed and denied the sinner, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Do I hear an AMEN!!!!