New Mantra of the last couple weeks: Learn to love Theocracy!

[UdoKier]

I'm pretty dumbfounded by it, really. THEY declare war and suddenly WE'RE the bad guys for wanting to preserve the church/state barrier!

Ah, yes. mustn't offend the poor, put-upon majority.

They have their churches on every corner, they funnel untold wasted billions into their coffers while people starve, but we should pussyfoot around them, and suck it up when they knock down every barrier between church and state, try to foist their religious mumbo-jumbo on MY kids at school by putting stickers on textbooks denouncing SCIENCE.

My gay friends ask for nothing more than equality and they are SMACKED DOWN, and my Jewish, Catholic, Atheist and Buddhist friends are told to assimilate or they will BURN in the lake of fire.

Where is the common ground, when it is these people who have declared war on anyone who won't submit and observe THEIR religious icons?

I'm no extremist. I'm all for nativity sets and menorahs on the public square, but not one to the exclusion of another.

This is NOT a judeo-christian country. It is a FREE country. At least it's supposed to be.

[quiet.american]

1. WAS

Was a free country. Shrub said it, "there ought to be limits to freedom." Now, the American Taliban has put their stamp of approval on it.

As for me, I'm getting my papers in order and learning French.

[sadman]

2. You said it...

I read that a poll in France preferred Kerry over Bush 90%. Sounds like a nice place to me.

[ballcap1776]

3. We're getting our passports in order

Although if he cracks down at some point (bad enough to give up trying to change things and I feel compelled to leave) it might be too late, borders closed and all that.

But we can hope it doesn't go that far. My GLBT friends are terrified and some of my black and native American friends, as well.

[CrispyQ]

5. Are you taking a class or doing a computer program? eom

[quiet.american]

6. Taking a class

Don't have the discipline anymore for DIY. :)

[Cleita]

4. No thanks, I've been to Utah.

However, if you want to know what a theocracy is like, take your next vacation in Utah, Mingle with the locals. You will get so sick of every conversation being framed with church talk type references that you stop looking at the natural beauty around you because the kool-aid drinkers are scary and distracting.

The Church of Latter Day Saints or LDS looms large everywhere. I was in a bookstore where a whole wall was stacked with religious LDS books. Listening to the radio, it was all about morals and those scandals involving people who didn't follow the kool-aid line. One show involved a book by Isabella Allende, "The House of Spirits" which is historically about the effects of the American orchestrated Pinochet coup on a family dynasty, yet all the focus was on the fact that the Mormons considered the Chilean culture immoral.

This is what it will be like folks. I really don't mean to offend any liberal Utahans because I know there are many, but you guys know you are being held hostage by the very powerful leadership of the Mormon Church.

[quiet.american]

7. Have heard the same thing

...from a friend who drove on her own through Mormon country. She was completely creeped out.