What the heck happened to the right's views that big government is bad ? You hear them repeatedly railing against government regulations of corporations and railing against all these taxes on the rich and yet when it comes right down to it they want to create even more government intrusion into our lives.
You can see it with their interest in women's reproductive healthcare. They want to stick their anti regulation noses into that so deep you wonder if they will come out the other side. First you have all this interest in contraceptives. See the far religious right believe all contraceptives are bad. That they are against God's Will. This is their religious view that they wish to foist upon the nation.
Let's look at that sentence for a second. Do you see anything wrong with it ? Okay it might not be structured perfectly. But I am asking about what it actually says not the grammar. I am a little pissed about that sentence. Why should their religious views take precedent over all others ? There is no medical reason to deny contraception to men and women. It is 100% religious. They do the exact same thing with Abortion.
Uh oh I said the A word. Watch out the far right religious nuts will be marching on my front lawn now. See abortion triggers this irrational fear in right wing religious people. I can understand their belief that this is against God's Will. What I can't understand is their belief that the rest of the country must follow their religious views.
The whole debate is not for women's health as they try and say. The Republicans bend over backwards to kiss this groups collective ass and draw up all these laws and regulations to pander to them. But we all know that these laws have nothing whatsoever to do with a woman's health. The whole point is to block access to a service that is not only legal, but extremely safe when done by a medical professional. They do have every single thing to do with the religous Rights' views that Abortion is against their religion. So why have we let their religious views become law in America ? Why has one single version of Christianity gotten their beliefs ensconed into law ? Isn't there supposed to be a brick wall separating religion and civil law ? If they can have laws written to codify their beliefs into law what is next ? How about Some Jewish laws ? You know like Kosher dietary restrictions. No ? Okay how about Some Jehovah Witness laws or maybe better yet some Scientology laws, oh wait that would put Tom Cruise back jumping all over some talk show couchs and we can't have that so how about some Mormon laws. Those sound good. Let's make it law that we can have as many husbands or woves as we can support. No? man you sure are hard to please. So it is okay to have laws from one sect of Christianity but not from any other religions ? Isn't that just a bit UnAmerican ?
Jump on down below the orange snow doodle and let's see what the Supreme Court is doing to save us from this religious encroachment.
Back in the 70's The SCOTUS stated that women had a legal right to get an abortion. Since then that right has been whittled away slowly and surely by states that can not out right ban the operation. Today we probably could not have the same vote. The Robert's court has repeatedly voted to allow other's religious views to impact all. Look what they did in the Hobby Lobby decision. The Robert's court has not only held that corporations are people but that these corporate people can have religious views. Let me ask you this. When was the last time you saw Hobby Lobby in church ? Has anyone ever seen Hobby Lobby in church ? I'm not talking about the owners. I mean the actual corporation. Anyone at all ever seen it in church ? Yet despite this the Robert's court has said that Hobby Lobby can have religious views. Not only that but that it can enforce those religious views upon it's employees. I am 100% certain a Muslim business would not have won that argument.
So I get back to the title question. Why are the religous right's views more important than anyone elses ? How is it that their beliefs are being codified into law while other religions get to suck eggs ? At least the Satanic Temple is fighting back, and fighting it under these same laws that are being used to deny women their rights. If I was a member of another religion I would be a little pissed that the religious right has gotten their laws passed. I really expected to have a huge burst of outrage at these things yet I hear nothing. Silence. Are other religions afraid of speaking up ? Do they expect a backlash of the American people ? We can come back to that.
More examples if any are needed of the religious right and their attempts to get their religion into every day society. We see it all the time. In school district after school district as they attempt to make Creationism a subject taught in public schools. They are trying to get it made into a science so it can be taught right alongside biology as insane as that sounds, some school districts have gone for this to the detriment of their students. These people sincerely believe that America was created as a Christian nation. They try and get people to believe this even when all of the evidence to the contrary slaps them in the face. No matter how much evidence you have to the contrary ut will never ever change their belief. What is really scary is a lot of these people have been elected to public office. That is really dangerous. They see a day when they can completely rule the country under their laws. They believe that they have freedom of religion as enshrined in the Constitution, yet they want to deny that same freedom to every other religion and even other Christian religions that do not believe exactly as they believe. They see nothing odd or wrong about this. They truly believe that clause was written for their brand of Christianity only. These people believe they have every right under the Constitution to deny others their religious freedom. It seems as if the Robert's court believes this as well. That is another really scary fact.
Our country was founded upon the idea of religious freedom. We did not want a state religion like we had to endure under British rule. Many of our founding fathers held non Christian beliefs and yet those on the religious right will tell you otherwise. There are many religions in this world. There are many people who do not have any religious beliefs at all and many do not believe in any God at all. Who is to say which view is right ? Who is to say their view should be the only bview allowed. What is really funny is that these same right wing religious fanatics condemn ISIS which believes that they have the right to Violently impose their religious views on others. Why is that funny ? Because there is not much difference between ISIS and the religious right. About the only difference is currently ISIS is using force of arms to enforce their religious views while the religious right has not gotten to that point YET. I can see that time coming soon if they don't get their way.