calling a spade a shovel

[rone]

Jym Dyer at meme_machine_go suggests that we call Pat Robertson's actions by their proper name: he has issued a fatwah.

Comments

[bramsmits.livejournal.com]

so honestly i'm not sure how religion can ever touch me.

Religiously inspired legislation. To name just a few (I don't know you personally, so I don't know which ones are relevant to you): abortion rights and attempts at the curtailing thereof, same sex marriage or rather the persistent lack thereof in the US (and sorry guys, I'm not counting MA - there's still a void there at the federal level), or more down to earth, your tax money being funneled to religious organizations; some of the middle-east policies have a religious background (and might lead directly or indirectly to trauma, injury or death of people you know, and definitely cost you tax money)... I'm sure this list could be expanded almost indefinitely.

[merde.livejournal.com]

hm, well, if my luck goes as it has been for the last 8 years there's no chance of pregnancy. i wouldn't get married again if the entire republican party stood outside my door and sang a merry little "please merde get married" jingle... but yeah, how they spend my tax money is an issue.

seriously, all those things are important to me. but that wasn't my point. i've forgotten what my point was, and i don't seem to have made it very well either... it's been that kind of year. i think i may have come down with a case of the Democratic Party.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What we have now is just scratching the surface of laws. Same-sex marriage wasn't around anywhere in the world, what, 30 years ago? The tax money going to faith-based charities is new and barely worth noticing. Our Middle East policy is not at all different from our regular foreign policy over the last 100 or more years, and to call it religiously motivated isn't accurate.

Seriously, i'm aggravated to have empire-building Bible thumpers in charge, but big whoop. This'll blow over soon.