Extremist Religion - The gentle subversion of America

[wook77]

A few posts ago, I joked about the website God Hates Shrimp. It is a work of parody of the extreme right wing of the US.

Today, I read in emmagrant01's lj about a law being proposed in Indiana. I followed the link to elke_tanzer's journal and found out that this is NOT a work of parody. This is not a joke.

Instead, this is the Taliban infiltrating the US. This is the subversion of freedom and democracy. This is scary.

This insanity has quite a few pieces I'd love to dissect, but instead, I'll just make one point. It's tough limiting myself to just it but here goes anyway.

The proposed law states (to quote the above article) Some of the required information includes the fertility history of the parents, education and employment information, hobbies, personality descriptions, verification of marital status, child care plans, letter of reference and criminal history checks.

A description of the family lifestyle of the intended parents is also required, including individual participation in faith-based or church activities.



Since when does being religious mean that you are a proper parental figure for children? Let's look at some extreme right wing religious people.

The first is Andrea Yates. She was extremely Christian and she drowned her children because God Told Her To Do It..

How about Susan Smith? This religious woman was molested as a child by her God-fearing father (a minor Republican represetative) and then drowned her two children. She did because she was a whackjob but the religious part still stands.

Another case of religion making great parents - Deanna Laney. She stoned her children to death because God Told Her To Do It.

Just to show that it's not just religious mothers... let's have a father. Michael Gentry spoke of having the right to kill his children and then he did just that.

According to this article, religiosity is a common factor among mothers who kill their children.

For "shits and giggles", just google parents kill children god... I got 14 million hits. Quite a few weren't applicable but the fact that those four terms brought back so many hits scare the crap out of me and prove that there is a reason why we have a Constitutional Right to the Seperation of Church and State.



It's time's like these that I'm really glad that the ACLU exists. I've been wavering on whether or not to join because of different stances that I'm not too sure I agree with. However, their vow to fight this just finished swaying me over. Thank God (and yes, I'm Christian) I live in Arizona. Hopefully the insanity stays contained in a small area and we can go in and treat these delusional people with medication before the law passes.

I'm going to join in on urging all of you to contact this nutjob. You can contact her through the government's website HERE. Her email is s32@in.gov.

To quote emmagrant01 - "fuck you, fuckers".

Comments

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i read about that law, too, and words pretty much fail me. as i said to someone else on my flist, they have to be pretty scared to go to such extreme measures. sometimes i really do wonder how people who are so vehemently clamoring for their religious freedom, as i see right-wing christians often do, are at the same time so invested in curtailing other people's freedoms. in those times i also hug my european passport rather tightly.

i friended you today, btw, so expect more comments from me in the future :).

[wook77.livejournal.com]

First, the squee of joy of being friended! :))

Second, the groan of jealousy of your european passport.

Third, I'm amazed at the audacity or mendacity (I'm not sure which at this point) of these people. I wrote to this lady and asked her which she disliked, homosexuals, unmarried women or children. There are so many people giving up children they didn't want that I'm shocked they would impede the ability of people that WANT children from having them.

To me, this is a ploy to insure that the only people breeding are the people that believe the same as these bigots. For people who don't believe in Darwin and survival of the fittest, they're sure trying to legislate their way into being the "fittest".

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

hee, it's a good feeling, isn't it? i was in the mood to add a few more peeps to my flist :).

oh, i didn't do anything to get it, but it's useful.

totally. i hope you saw that they retracted the bill? they probably got too mch heat from their own constituents.

that's so true. i really cannot understand how people can come up with this crap and think it's rational and sensible legislation.

[lightgoddess-69.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but people like these are DANGEROUS. They are every bit as dangerous as the right-wing-terrorist-car-bombing-muslims. I work with a lady who is right-winged, and just last week, she was telling me that all would be right in the USA if 'those foreigners' who came over here had to worship 'our God'. You see, I'm not Christian, but I don't advertise it, either, so you can see the irony of her statement. I just smiled at her and reminded her that she wants to do exactly what England was doing to cause the founding fathers to come over here. Every day I'm glad that we have a Seperation of Church and State. =)