Americans used to have the freedom to express any opinion anywhere. Now, protesters carrying picket signs are carefully kept away, caged behind wire fences. At a college, SDSU, there used to be notices freely posted everywhere on campus. Now unless they are the offical line of the authorties they can only be posted on one board, supposed to be the free speech outlet for 30,000 students.
America was set up by its founders to be a secular republic, with no mention of anybody's gods in its constitution. James Madison, father of the Constirution and author of the Bill of Rights, was adamant in insisting on complete separation of church and state. But today we see fundie fanatics in the halls of the White House and Congress, trying to coopt our government to push their religious prejudices onto society, promoting the falsehood that America is a Christian nation rather than a nation within which people are free to adopt any religion they choose or none at all.
Return to the founders.
2007-02-22
04:52:32
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