Per the Bill of Rights, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”. So my question is, if you can’t establish a religion then how can you vote based on religious principals. It is felt even more today than ever before, and frankly it is a human rights issue. How can we the people stand by and watch our personal rights be trampled on? How can we the people idly stand by while our government is bought and paid for by whichever industry has the most money to give this year. I am not a Christian, but I understand that our government has gone so far off the tracks and that there may be no way to get it back. This is supposed to be the nation of free thinking ideas, of privacy and personal freedom. Where what I do with my body is my business and no Congress, Senate or President can do anything about it. Except it isn’t that way anymore. You see all of my governing bodies think that I shouldn’t have the right to marry another woman. They also think that I shouldn’t have the right to abort a baby within the first trimester. They think that if I am dying in a hospital bed, because the child I am carrying is killing me, that I don’t have the right to be saved. What is Christian about that? What is Christian about forcing a child to live in poverty and veritable depression unwanted and unloved? Those Christians are always spouting thinks like “Respect thy neighbor” and “You reap what you sew”. So where is the respect that I should be afforded to live my own life, to choose who I spend my life with, and whether or not I choose to bring another human being into the world. These were human rights long before any government decided to mandate how I live, and they will be my rights until I curl up my toes and die. But fear warning to all of you pushing for the further infringement on my rights, you are not doing the Christianly thing. There will be a time when you are in the minority, and it will still be me fighting for your right to believe what you want, even though it seems like you will make me fight forever to keep mine. We have been down this road before and it leads to nothing but destruction if Thomas Jefferson saw it then why can’t we see it now?
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
- Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec 6, 1813
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