Faith Based Government
(Written July 2006
during Geroge W. Bush's presidential term)
I have faith in the pure ideals of our forefathers who felt that our elected officials should not forward an agenda based on personal beliefs and morality, but an agenda based on the common good of all of those who place them in the seats of government. The biased representation of the electorate to favor those persons with a particular social agenda is an abomination to the great minds that drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These fundamental canons of this great nation’s promise of freedom, liberty, justice, opportunity and happiness for all are being severely threatened by our elected officials at every level of government.
The suggestion that the Christian conservative “God” based “faith” is the best solution for governing the masses is an insult to those of differing opinions and the founding principals of this great nation. Forwarding a conservative, religious, intolerant agenda is an affront to the free thinking individualism that made the USA a world leader in tolerance and true democratic process.
The current conservative regime that governs our great country would have us believe that social improvement for the masses is seeded in the religious beliefs of the minority. Funding provided to “faith-based” groups for aid to the poor and destitute opens the door to the wholesale propagation of narrow religious ideals to those made vulnerable by the lack of basic essentials such as food, clothing and shelter. Public funding to religious groups is a clear violation of the constitutional provisions mandating the separation of Church and State that protect individual freedom of choice. These same “faith based” groups that receive the social program funding are preaching political agendas to their congregations under the guise of furthering the salvation of mankind.
It is as wrong to attempt to legislate morality as it is for the nations’ religious institutions to preach politics from the pulpit.
I have faith in the pure ideals of our forefathers who felt that our elected officials should not forward an agenda based on personal beliefs and morality, but an agenda based on the common good of all of those who place them in the seats of government. The biased representation of the electorate to favor those persons with a particular social agenda is an abomination to the great minds that drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These fundamental canons of this great nation’s promise of freedom, liberty, justice, opportunity and happiness for all are being severely threatened by our elected officials at every level of government.
The suggestion that the Christian conservative “God” based “faith” is the best solution for governing the masses is an insult to those of differing opinions and the founding principals of this great nation. Forwarding a conservative, religious, intolerant agenda is an affront to the free thinking individualism that made the USA a world leader in tolerance and true democratic process.
The current conservative regime that governs our great country would have us believe that social improvement for the masses is seeded in the religious beliefs of the minority. Funding provided to “faith-based” groups for aid to the poor and destitute opens the door to the wholesale propagation of narrow religious ideals to those made vulnerable by the lack of basic essentials such as food, clothing and shelter. Public funding to religious groups is a clear violation of the constitutional provisions mandating the separation of Church and State that protect individual freedom of choice. These same “faith based” groups that receive the social program funding are preaching political agendas to their congregations under the guise of furthering the salvation of mankind.
It is as wrong to attempt to legislate morality as it is for the nations’ religious institutions to preach politics from the pulpit.
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