Politics and Religion.
Today in America it is becoming taboo to talk about Religion while speaking about Politics. This ideology comes from a perversion of the idea of "separation of church and state". To most secular Americans the term "separation of church and state" means "don't mix politics and religion" and that is utterly and completely wrong!
The idea of separating church from state is simple. It means that no government will ever tell you that you have to believe in any specific church. Period. That's all the term was intended to mean, it's all it meant when it was said, and it's all it meant in many people's minds until the last 50 years when war was declared on traditionalists by the new "progressive left wing". However, though they are trying to make it mean something it doesn't, the more dangerous aspect is what it will mean if they succeed! Imagine the possibility that people begin to judge you, tell you what job you can do, and even criminalize you based on what you MIGHT think. Thought crime. Just like in 1984.
See, that's the trick of the left. They pretend that it's the right that wants to rob you of freedom, censor you, control your life, and so on. But in reality that's the complete opposite! And yet so many of the people I speak to daily seem to think that the left is the party that wants freedom. I don't know how they got talked into "drinking the kool-aid" but they did.
The PMRC was a censorship group designed to remove 1st amendment rights from artists, and to control what you listen to. It was created by left wingers (Tipper Gore, Al Gore's wife was the head of it).
Joe Lieberman, is public enemy #1 when it comes to attacking creative freedom in movies and video games, and yep also ran as Al Gore's running mate in 2000. Get this, while he sponsors a group that wants to get rid of video game violence and movie violence, he voted AGAINST criminalizing the act of burning a flag. (So I guess to Joe, it's freedom of expression to really burn something, but it's illegal if you just pretend to).
These two examples are just two of many, many examples out there as to why it's very important to not draw incorrect conclusions about statements like "separate church and state". The government has no right to tell you what you can and cannot believe in, period.
Now, some people might say "but when you legislate based on your religious views you are legislating your religion!" And to that I'd simply say "You vote for people who legislate, if you don't like how they are legislating, don't vote for them" If you vote you enjoy what democracy really is, the voice of a nation's citizenry dictating it's rule. If you vote and it doesn't go the way you had hoped, learn from it, start a grass roots movement, or just sit and complain on your blog. Anything you choose to do is up to you, because you have the freedom to do it! Just like the people who vote in candidates who are men/women of faith know that their candidate is going to vote with a faith-based approach. It's free-will in a free-society. I don't see how that can possibly be bad.
The idea of separating church from state is simple. It means that no government will ever tell you that you have to believe in any specific church. Period. That's all the term was intended to mean, it's all it meant when it was said, and it's all it meant in many people's minds until the last 50 years when war was declared on traditionalists by the new "progressive left wing". However, though they are trying to make it mean something it doesn't, the more dangerous aspect is what it will mean if they succeed! Imagine the possibility that people begin to judge you, tell you what job you can do, and even criminalize you based on what you MIGHT think. Thought crime. Just like in 1984.
See, that's the trick of the left. They pretend that it's the right that wants to rob you of freedom, censor you, control your life, and so on. But in reality that's the complete opposite! And yet so many of the people I speak to daily seem to think that the left is the party that wants freedom. I don't know how they got talked into "drinking the kool-aid" but they did.
The PMRC was a censorship group designed to remove 1st amendment rights from artists, and to control what you listen to. It was created by left wingers (Tipper Gore, Al Gore's wife was the head of it).
Joe Lieberman, is public enemy #1 when it comes to attacking creative freedom in movies and video games, and yep also ran as Al Gore's running mate in 2000. Get this, while he sponsors a group that wants to get rid of video game violence and movie violence, he voted AGAINST criminalizing the act of burning a flag. (So I guess to Joe, it's freedom of expression to really burn something, but it's illegal if you just pretend to).
These two examples are just two of many, many examples out there as to why it's very important to not draw incorrect conclusions about statements like "separate church and state". The government has no right to tell you what you can and cannot believe in, period.
Now, some people might say "but when you legislate based on your religious views you are legislating your religion!" And to that I'd simply say "You vote for people who legislate, if you don't like how they are legislating, don't vote for them" If you vote you enjoy what democracy really is, the voice of a nation's citizenry dictating it's rule. If you vote and it doesn't go the way you had hoped, learn from it, start a grass roots movement, or just sit and complain on your blog. Anything you choose to do is up to you, because you have the freedom to do it! Just like the people who vote in candidates who are men/women of faith know that their candidate is going to vote with a faith-based approach. It's free-will in a free-society. I don't see how that can possibly be bad.