Silly TheoCons, Tricks Are For Kids
I sometimes wonder what people are thinking when they find out that they’re
on the wrong side of history. Is there
some point when they know that they screwed up?
That what they are thinking, what they have been brought up to think,
was wrong?
I know people here in the South – to this day – refuse to acknowledge
that they were on the wrong side of history on a lot of things. They refuse to acknowledge that they were on
the wrong side of history when it came to slavery. They refuse to acknowledge that they lost the
Civil War. They refer to it as the “War
of Northern Aggression”. They refuse to acknowledge
that they were on the wrong side of history when it came to the Civil Rights
struggle of the 50’s and 60’s.
Outlaw slavery, and what happened?
Jim Crow laws were created. The
Klu Klux Klan got started. Riots and lynchings
and bombings and out-and-out murder went on.
We’re talking about acts of terror that mirrored those being committed
by Islamic extremists around the world today.
And we’re not talking about just a handful of “lone extremists” and “nut-job
wackos”. We’re talking ministers and
businesspeople, mayors, police chiefs, and even governors. All of them firmly believing with every fiber
of their being that they were right.
Hell, that they were consecrated by God that they were in the right! That history and “heritage” and God-almighty were
all on their side!
In the 1920’s, the KKK was so large that they actually had a march on
Washington DC. They had a movie made in
1915 called “Birth of a Nation” that painted themselves as “modern-day”
crusaders. And that was back when making
movies – never mind releasing them – was a major production in and of itself.
You can’t just turn that off and say “all is forgiven”. We are talking about generations of
institutionalized bigotry and discrimination that had to be challenged. And every step forward, every obstacle that
was overcome, resulted in still more obstacles put up. “We can’t kill ‘em, but we can prohibit them
from voting. We can’t stop them from
voting, but we can stop them from doing business with us. We can’t stop them from doing business with
us, but we can zone them away from our neighborhoods. We can’t zone them away, but we can keep
their kids from going to school with our kids.
We can’t keep their kids from going to school with our kids, but...”
And on and on and on. Every time
it gets smaller and smaller, but every time it’s an effort for them to try to
impose their self-righteous superiority over others. A superiority that they believe was handed to
them by God.
And I have to wonder, will any of them ever admit that they were in the
wrong? Or would it have to be their
descendants that make that proclamation?
That brings us to today, and the latest efforts by self-righteous
people that fail to accept that they are on the wrong side of history. Only this time it’s not about race or
color. It’s about sexual orientation and
their own supposed “religious freedom”.
Gay rights are the Civil Rights struggle for the 21st
Century. The same factions, the same
self-righteous minds that used to marginalize and dehumanize people of
different colors and different faiths are fighting tooth-and-nail to maintain
their dominance in society when it comes to sexual orientation.
And let’s get brutally honest here... this is what the whole issue is really
about. It’s not about “religious freedom”. “Religious freedom” is simply the buzzword
they have latched on to conceal their real goal. This is about dominionism, plain and
simple. Their dominionism over all of
us, no matter the color, creed, belief, or orientation.
This is about the bible-thumpers of America being able to maintain
their dominance into society. They
couldn’t continue to outlaw same-sex activity.
They couldn’t prohibit the LGBT community from coming out of the shadows,
starting businesses, moving into their neighborhoods, or raising children and
having those children co-mingle with their children. And their last great pillar of their
dominance, the institution of marriage, is falling state-by-state and
court-by-court.
The only thing left for the self-righteous is their dissatisfaction. They are seeking a license to discriminate,
to be able to say with impunity and disgust “we don’t cater to your kind!”
That’s what they said to people of different color a century ago. It’s what they said to people of different
faith even longer than that. “We don’t
cater to your kind!”
Only they really can’t say that to people of different color or different
faith today.
And that really sums up their true intent with these so-called “religious
liberty” laws. Stripped down of all the pretense and legalese, it is their
ability to say with impunity and disgust “we don’t cater to your kind!”
It’s not about liberty. It’s
about license. It’s about being able to
discriminate without consequence. To be
able to put their beliefs above others.
And, make no mistake, this has already been put in play! A church has actually
invoked the “freedom of religion” to defend itself against any consequences
in their ongoing problem with pedophile priests. They say “We can’t be held to the judgement
of your courts because of the First Amendment”.
What makes this subject even more disgusting is how the conservatives
and neo-conservatives and especially the theo-conservatives have been reacting
to the backlash to their efforts to sneak in these “religious liberty”
laws. They’re throwing temper tantrums,
stomping their feet and screaming like little children that “Christians are
under attack” if they don’t get their way.
Yeah, maybe if you were in Kenya or Egypt or Iraq you could say
that. Maybe if you were actually being
hunted down by Islamic extremists simply for being Christian, your claim of “persecution”
would be valid.
But you’re not in any of those places.
You’re in America; where you’ve been able to rejoice in your
self-imposed dominance over society for so long that you’ve become the modern-day
hypocritical Pharisees mentioned in the New Testament.
And you just got caught trying to cement your hypocrisy. Get that cross out of your butt and accept
the fact that you are on the wrong side of history yet again.
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