If you didn't know any better, you might "mistakenly" believe the title of this diary is a euphemism for the Republican platform... and even though this is the Ku Klux Klan's slogan, you really wouldn't be mistaken in your belief.
The KKK is in Austin to protest Texas proposition 2, the "gay marriage amendment." After reading about the Senate's proposed budget cuts, I was wary of changing the subject to the KKK and gay marriage; watching the Senate condone starvation makes issues like gay marriage seem petty.
Then I thought... these two issues are actually endemic to the Republican strategy. It really says something about Republicans that the KKK takes sides with them on issues such as this.
Evangelicals like Pat Robertson are in bed with the KKK. If we lived in Iraq, the KKK would be al-Zarqawi's followers and Pat Robertson would be some other crazy Sunni cleric. Both al-Zarqawi and Sunni extremists are equally detrimental to Iraq's future. Both the KKK and Robertson are equally detrimental to America's future. Without argument, these individuals form the steadfast Republican "base."
Don't get me wrong: many loving, giving Christians exist on this Earth. Many who
vote Republican have good intentions but just don't realize exactly for whom and for what they are voting.
Republican disrepresentatives, as we now know, take advantage of this voter ignorance: they pander to "wackos" and confuse all other God-fearing Republican voters. "As long as we have the KKK, Robertson, and all the other wackos, nobody has to know that we're starving children to keep our precious tax cuts." That's Republican Strategy 101.
So it is no surprise that most Republican disrepresentatives vote to starve the poor; that when the political going gets tough they propose amending the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage; that they oppose stem cell research which could save countless lives; that they oppose HPV vaccinations--a surefire preventative of cervical cancer--so that a few girls won't have premarital sex; that they feel the right to meddle in other people's lives in various ways for "religious reasons."
To hide behind Christianity in order to spread hate (or even to spread "Hope and Deliverance" to only a select group) is contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
I could go on all day, but things won't change until the Democratic party or the media consistently highlights the fact that Republican disrepresentatives politically neglect anyone who doesn't happen to be white, rich, and Christian.