Evanagelical Bullshit

It never ceases to amaze me how the ultra-religious have free reign over rewriting history. They are doing it in Texas, forcing schoolchildren to learn the ways of the neo-con from kindergarten on up. Gone is the study of Thomas Jefferson, as he is suddenly not "founding fatherly" enough (or not Christian enough). His replacement in school textbooks is not suprisingly right-winger John Calvin, and of course Ronald Reagan. Allowing evangelicals to dictate what school boards will do simply results in the sanctioning of religious doctrine into our schools. This is what evengelicals do. They firmly believe that God is on their side of the political spectrum.

I was watching a story on CNN of a Florida city manager who was doing a fine job up until it was revealed that he was a transgender. Suddenly this man was not fit for office, according to the religious nut jobs who very unconstitutionally apply a litmus test to such an office. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when a local reverend stood before the city council and declared that "he knows quite a lot about the Bible and scripture and that if Jesus was here that he himself would advocate for the firing of this city manager." Really?" That is what Jesus would do? I was half-heartedly waiting for this "man of God" to proclaim "give us Barabas!"

Checking my social networking pages also resulted in an onslaught of the right-wing religious types. One "friend" actually wrote to me that "this country was founded by christians" and that "nobody named Mohammed had signed the Constitution." Now trying to explain to the ignorant that this country was founded by secularists, first and foremost, and that the very removal of religion from governance was a primary directive of the framers of this nation, well, was basically a collosal waste of time. I have little doubt that those who would pen such statements about how only christians signed our founding documents also have little understanding of what these documents stand for.

It is shameful when those who are privileged enough to bask in the freedom that this country provides turn the very meaning of that freedom on it's head and allow their bigotry and biases to negate the wisdom of those who came before us. Certainly nobody named Mohammed signed the U.S. Constitution but had they done so would you feel differently centuries later when such a point was used to legislate teachings opposed to your belief system into school curricula? This country was founded on the idea of freedom and not just the freedom to agree with you.