Gloveshot

As America Sinks Into the Sunset.

What can I say, our representatives in Congress have killed our nation. They no longer feel we need to be a progressive nation, leading the world into a better home for humanity. They now support imprisonment and torture if the President says, "I say so." What are our recourses if the man says that about us?

This past week a political flyer from the National Republican Congressional Committee arrived in my mail box. The flyer states "Traditional marriage is hanging by a thread." The flip side reads, "Patty Wetterling is holding the scissors. Liberal Patty Wetterling is against a Constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage. (St. Cloud Times,10/20/04) You'd think protecting marriage would be easy. Obviously, Patty's hometown values aren't our values."

Well, I take this to mean the Republican members of Congress want the ability to legislate discrimination, starting with the group they consider the easiest target to bully, because many people feel homosexuals are some type of human degenerates. Whether or not homosexuality is a birth hardwire, or a learned behavior, or a lifestyle choice does not matter. It in no way threatens traditional marriage. And regardless of the feelings you or I have for gay or lesbian citizens, they are American Citizens, and by birthright, they are entitled to equal rights and protections as are afforded to all American Citizens. If we allow Congress to legislate discrimination against one group of American Citizens, how many of us will be discriminated against next time around. Will it be Blacks, Jews, Atheists? Will it be Artists, Musicians, Writers, Journalists, Bloggers? Will it be the Old, the Weak, the Terminally Ill, the Mentally challenged? Me, You? We cannot allow the gate to be opened, because it will drown all of us.

Also this past week, I have contacted Rep. Mark Kennedy, who is running for the US Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Mark Dayton, telling Mr. Kennedy that I will work against his election to the US Senate. The reason, as I explained to the Congressman, is because I cannot and will not support any Government which does not hold to the highest moral standards that can be attained by humanity. I cannot support a government that can hold prisoners in secret prisons, without a fair hearing, without charges, and subject them to treatment which does not conform to the standards of human decency a civilized society should expect.

And in the little box where it asks how to improve Rep. Kennedy's website, I suggested that he remove all content, put up a statement that he was wrong to vote to destroy the American Constitution, and to announce that he was retiring from all public office.

If anyone ever reads this before the November 2006 elections, and would like to restore the US Constitution as the Law of the Land, please check out where your candidates stand on the issues of legislated discrimination and granting the US President Dictatorial powers over the people of our fine country, and vote for a better America.

posted by gloveshot @ 7:35 AM