Does the GOP really support a theocratic America and hate democracy?

Question

It seems like these guys are doing all they can to dictate our private lives. I'm starting to wonder if the Mexican Iron Curtain is going up to keep them out or to monitor our movements even closer than they do today.

Answer 1

If you've ever been on a military base you know what this country would be like if Republicans were in charge.

Answer 2

I love democracy and I don't support a theocratic America, particularly if it means fundamentalism. I do think we should make it as difficult as possible for illegal immigrants of any kind to cross the border. As for your private life, keep it private, and do whatever you'd like. (See not all republicans are what you think.)

Answer 3

I'm a republican as well, and I'll tell you that the large majority of us lean libertarian philosophically. That means except for a narrow key issues (ex. national defense) government should stay mostly out of your life, but I mean that in both ways you'll like & that you'll dislike. I could compromise with you on most key social issues, but I’d also make you give up all entitlements (social security, welfare, etc) in favor of limited government charity programs that don’t redistribute wealth individually or generationally. Government isn’t here to help, it isn’t supposed to be. It serves the common long-term interests of the whole country & screw you, me, & everybody in between. Grab your own dang bootstraps & make your own dang way, cause no one or no thing is going to do it for you & how could you ever live with yourself if you let them anyway.

A key thing to understand here is that I am a strong Christian, and I do think things like abortion or gay marriage are a sin, but at the same time I think sin is between you & God. In my experience, people that try to stand between a person & God and/or to do God’s job for him, well they tend to not like the results. He tells me, long about Romans, to stand up for right over wrong by discouraging you from sinning & trying to show you a better path, but that ultimately, I’m not to judge you on earth for him in heaven, it is your free will to do as you see fit & be rewarded or punished as he sees fit later. Ultimately it is about different understandings of the separation of church and state. We have to find a balance as a society where I can’t impose my religion on you, but neither can you impose on me a society that so violates the moral/religious principles our country was founded on as to make my religion meaningless or non-practicable. If defending your rights destroys mine, then neither solution is acceptable. Evangelical Republicans are not trying to create a theocracy, they’re trying to fight back against a society they feel is destroying everything they believe in. They just want balance, and they don’t fight any harder to impose their beliefs on you then the ACLU fights to impose their beliefs on them.

Answer 4

Ask Pat Robertson.