What are some major issues that Republicans and Democrats disagree on?

Question

I'm doing a homework paper.

Answer 1

Conservatives and the religious right want to destroy the US Constitution and rewrite it with God-based fiction so they cab replace our secular democratic republic with a Theocratic government (a Christian Saudi Arabia) based on the morality of their hateful and brutually judgemental God. John Adams description of fundamentalist Christians as people who want to, "whip and crop, and pillory and roast” us correctly identifies them as being exactly the same as Islamic terrorists.

There is not a single reference to God, Jesus, or Christianity in the US Constitution (the document creating our secular democratic republic.

By unanimous approval of the US Congress (1797) and signed into law by President John Adams:

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm


In their private letters among themselves, where they were free to truthfully speak their minds, the Founding Fathers are clear of their distrust of organized religion in general and of Christianity in particular:

JOHN ADAMS:
•“How has it happened that millions of myths, fables, legends and tales have been blended with Jewish and Christian fables and myths and have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed? Filled with the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?” (Letters to F.A. Van Der Kamp 1809-1816)

THOMAS JEFFERSON:
•I join you [John Adams], therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character.”

•“In every country and in every age the priest [any and every clergyman] has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

•“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”

•“His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did.”

•“Their [Presbyterian’s] ambition and tyranny would tolerate no rival if they had power.”

•“It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist.”

JAMES MADISON:
•Christianity neither is, nor ever was apart of the common law. Feb. 10, 1814

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
•Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands. They were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle’s Lecture. It happened that they produced on me an effect precisely the reverse of what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appealed to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself. In a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.”

JOHN TYLER:
•“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
•“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvationand the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” (to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death)

MARY TODD LINCOLN:
•“Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian.”

ULYSSES S. GRANT:
•Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” (Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875)

This is not the first time Christians have tried to undermine the government by rewriting the US Constitution to include Christianity as its basis. In 1864, 1874, 1896 and 1911, they tried to pass amendments that would rewrite the Constitution to include references to God. As the Constitution is the sole document upon which our nation is built, these attempts are treasonous and those who attempt to rewrite American history this was are traitors.

And today’s Christian terrorists wish America harm as well. On 9/11 both Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said that God had brought down the trade towers and killed 3,000 because he was angry with America and that we deserved it because we had brought it on ourselves.

Invoking God’s Thunder
On the Reverend Jerry Falwell.
By William F. Buckley
September 18, 2001 3:15 p.m.

•What Jerry Falwell said on the 700 Club program was that the sins of the nation incurred the wrath of God. Pat Robertson agreed. After a day or two of pretty general clamor, including a disavowal by President Bush, the language was slightly changed. What happened, Falwell elucidated, was not a direct aggression engineered by God, but the forfeit of God's special protection


We will never know if Adams was right when he wrote,” This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!”, because we likely we never find out.

But we do know that if the Christian religious-right gains control of America, then only terrorists will control the world. How can deal with Islamic terrorists abroad when we have Christian terrorist traitors at home?

Answer 2

Taxes, Iraq War, federal budget, gay marriage, stem cell research, education, minimum wage, hike, etc. Those are the biggest dividing issues right now.

So many differences, but the war in Iraq is the biggest one right now.

Good luck with your paper!

Answer 3

outsourcing....look at the votes on NAFTA, CAFTA and oman treaties