The Christian right is the enemy of all rational thinking, open-minded human beings. They are a huge influence in the States, and in American foreign policy.
America is a melting pot and the scum rises to the top. The "top" was reached when Ronald Reagan took his first oath of officce in Washington, for his first, horrendous term as pressident. It was all downhill from there.
It is not without irony that Reagan seems downright moderate juxtaposed to the pitbulls who put the Bush JR. camp in office.
Beware of the Heritage foundation, founded by the late, not-so-great Jerry Fallwell:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_FoundationSo goes the Heritage Junta, so goes the Nation.
As Jello Baifra once sang,
"You call yourselves the moral majority - we call ourselves the people of the real world"It's neigh f'n impossible to criticize the religious right in the United Snakes these days because doing so has been spun as some kind of mythical conspiracy that you're against an individual's right to practice their respective faith(s) and against god, and thus a terrorist against the nation.
This is the Dante-like first circle in the rings of theological discourse in the United Snakes these days. Each of the rings takes you deeper into the abyss of brainwashing, thuggery and crypto-fascist fanaticism;
Jihadism, I dare say. Just because car bombs aren't being used and heads are not literally rolling in cement shitboxes and being broadcast on the internet doesn't make theo-terrorism any different if it's Christ or Allah they hide behind: theocratic tyranny
is theocratic tyranny. One is just Pat Boone-like Stepford pretty and the other is down-and-dirty third world: it's still the same b. s. at its core, imo, and it's irrevocably fucked the United States up.
So, if you speak out against the RELIGIOUS RIGHT (note, it's not "religion," or "religious people," or, "the religious," but simply the terrorist flavor called "religious right," being singled out) it now comes off as if you are a threat to the state.
This is the dynamic one has to contend with in the United States in 2007.
When over half of the population refute scientific fact (r. e. evolution): it's time to pull a Kenny Rodgers and know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.