The Christian Right's Kind Words For McCain

The fact that the decay of society is due to the fact that people don't follow the Bible closely enough, particularly its teachings on human sexuality? Look at nations such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries, which are among the least religious societies on earth. They are also among the healthiest societies on earth, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. Most of the poorest, most violent, and least developed countries are unwaveringly religious. You want a country ruled by religion, move somewhere like Iran, Saudi Arabia, or El Salvador.

The thing with drugs is, I am not condoning drug use and addiction, but it is stupid to prosecute people who peacefully smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own homes. Our prisons are full of nonviolent drug offenders, and violent criminals (murderers, rapists, child molestors) are regularly paroled to make room for them. That, my friend, is pure satanic evil.

Also, I understand that you most likely truly and passionately believe in the teachings of Christianity and the Bible, but you are very quick to write off all beliefs that differ from your own as "pure satanic evil". It is your right to hold such beliefs, but it comes across as awfully judgemental and closed-minded. In many religions and cultures, using mind-expanding drugs (marijuana, peyote, LSD, etc) is actually considered a sacrament and a gateway to profound spiritual experience. many cultures and religions consider homosexuals and people who constitute a "third gender" to be profoundly sacred and spiritual, not spiritual and social pariahs as the Abrahamic faiths consider them to be.

I applaud you for being honest about your bigoted, intolerant views, but I have to ask you one thing. If you are a Christian and honestly believe those issues I mentioned are wrong, shouldn't you be speaking the truth to me (and people who engage in homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, and drug use) in love rather than throwing around such loaded terms like "deviance" and "perversion"?

And Democrats/liberals/progressives are not only concerned about "debauchery". We are also concerned about the war in Iraq, the economy, health care, education, poverty, global warming, the genocide in Darfur, nuclear proliferation, firefighters, technology, and a whole host of other issues. Gay marriage and marijuana use are pseudo-issues that the Religious Right spends far too much time obsessing over instead of real problems.

Live and let live, Donny.

Bear with me as I explain. :-) The media has a tradition of acknowledging only the Democrat and Republican parties. Those two parties get televised debates. Debates are often the turning points of campaigns, and at the very least, they send the message to Americans about who has a chance at winning. The amount of attention that a supposedly unbiased moderator gives each candidate also tells the public which candidate is the most "important" or successful. That said, I think it's suicidal to go with a third party when we are so dependent on a biased media for publicity. Working with the MSM is a necessary evil. I see a redemption of the Republican Party as the only solution and only hope, mainly because the GOP gets acknowledged by the media. I believe a grassroots movement to stop McCain is in order, so conservatives can replace him with Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Alan Keyes, or Tom Tancredo.

The pattern this time has been that the honest/consistent candidates, such as Alan Keyes, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, and Ron Paul, get spurned by the media and have to drop out from less publicity. If one of those candidates were chosen at the Republican convention, the media would be in a much more vulnerable position. It would not be as excusable to slight the Republican PARTY once it has coalesced around a candidate, even if the media can get away with being unfair to a Republican CANDIDATE (before the nomination is decided). I greatly respect Alan Keyes, but he is through with the Republican Party and will thus get slighted by the media, and so he will be unable to defeat the liberals without TV publicity. Fred Thompson was the only consistently conservative front-runner, and while he did not talk about his faith too much on the campaign trail, he stated that he would beseech Almighty God for wisdom in his first ten minutes as President. I can see Hillary saying that, too, but she does not have a consistent record, and definitely not a conservative one. I supported Fred Thompson because he was the only Republican candidate gaining momentum at the time he quit, which shows that he was able to attract a large following. I did not see that with the other honest candidates and thus did not think they could win. Fred Thompson believes in Christians' individual responsibility in dealing with social problems, with minimal government involvement. I trust him, and not Mike Huckabee, because Mike Huckabee made the "top ten most corrupt politicians" list at Judicial Watch.

Everywhere I go on the internet, there is immense dissatisfaction and spite towards McCain because of how he has trampled on our first and second amendment rights and wrote the treasonous McCain-Kennedy. I suppose the most influential thing in convincing me that he will not stand up to bigoted secularists who want to trample our freedom is found in this article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59187

I have been trying to show people what that means, but with little success. Most think it's too late to do something, and soon, it WILL be. The GOP convention is when the nomination will be sealed, and if we don't get a conservative then, we will lose in November.