Seriously. There is apparently a very large percentage of the population that thinks this should be a Christian nation. They want prayer in the schools, Christian displays in government buildings, and Christian morals enacted as laws. They oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoption because their religion says homosexuality is bad. They oppose freedom of choice because they don't like the choices. Not to mention that we have a currently entrenched government that doesn't value the rest of the Constitution, objects to courts that try to protect Constitutional rights, and thinks the Commander-in-Sheik should be above the law. So, let's say they're right. How many people out there think this country has become unsalvageable and think it's time to follow the example of our Founding Fathers and find someplace free from religious and political persecution? Show of hands, how many are up for going elsewhere and founding a new country, and trying to get it right this time? Seriously.
2006-07-01 04:51:04 · 5 answers · asked by coragryph 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
We would seriously consider it. This is NOT the country I grew up in, and it is disturbing in the extreme. I am seriously worried about what the Executive branch would do if their party loses Congress in the mid-terms. Will they declare Martial Law, or find some other way to repress open elections and their results? I am also seriously alarmed by their efforts to supress the press, in the name of "State secrets". It sounds almost Stalinesque.
But, seriously, based on the mid-term outcomes, my husband & I really would consider leaving the potential United States of Jesus, as much as we love our country. And we do love it; my husband served in the Army and I was an Army brat, born at Fort Bragg. But I hate the polarization that is happening, with a small group dictating what the rest of the people can and cannot do.
2006-07-01 05:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by Bartmooby 6 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Seriously. You think you're politically and religiously persecuted? To the extent that this nation was or is Christian, it was and is so because of its people. Since we do not live under a theocracy, but under a Constitution that guarantees freedom of religion, we have never had an officially "Christian" federal government. With regards to freedom of choice, by which I assume you mean a woman's freedom to have an abortion; those who oppose this do so because they believe that abortion takes an innocent human life, not because they desire to exercise control over another person's body. The Constitution says nothing about abortion, and prior to the activist ruling of Roe v. Wade, this matter was left up to the individual states. As far as homosexuality goes, many if not most conservatives are willing to allow people to live the lifestyle of their choice without any form of government intervention. What they are opposed to, is the government compelling them to recognize practices that many, many religious and non-religious people view as unnatural, as perfectly normal. If you don't like the current political climate, perhaps you'd prefer the days immediately following the founding of the Republic when sodomy was illegal in every state in the Union. Obviously, you don't like the current president, but he is an elected official who serves for a specified term. Same thing with your senators, representatives, governor, etc, if you don't like some of them as well, in due time you will be able to vote against them, and then perhaps, as you see things, the pendulum will begin to swing the other way. Because you seem to view the courts as the defenders of our rights, you ought to support a strict constructionist view of the Constitution since a court that can create "rights" out of thin air can take them away just as easily. Look what happened in the recent case involving Eminent Domain. Finally, where are you going to establish your new country, and what form of government and system of laws is it going to have? Seriously.
2006-07-01 06:17:35 · answer #2 · answered by tom d 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have a nice trip; lots of people stayed in England and wever very happy.
You seem most intelligent and so I would simply ask to put yourself into the mind set of someone you seem to dispise. A religious conservative, a person of strong faith in God and Christian values. And look and see how your side of the agenda forbids his Christian views from law, forbids any presentation of them on public property, and especially how your side persecutes him in your eyes, your media and probably in your political discussions. Just think - if you can - about the other side.
That said I know there are religous zealouts that go too far, want too much in terms of laws and such, and I agree there needs to be a balance. But unlike you I view the balance far against the Christian in the US.
2006-07-01 05:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by netjr 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't want to leave and start over. I want to run things and bring it back to the glory it should be. You should read my blog sometime. I think you would find my views interesting reading.
2006-07-01 04:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by rhymeweaver 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please do.
2006-07-01 05:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by trinitytough 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋