backscatter712 Fri Aug-12-11 05:00 PM
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OK, I admit it. I will openly discriminate against the highly religious in the 2012 elections.
And this is different...HOW?
Call me a bigot. I don't ****ing care. But I have absolutely no respect for the highly religious, and I do not want one in the Oval Office.
OK, you're a bigot.
If you're a Pentecostal who speaks in tongues, I don't want you speaking for me.
He may be speaking ABOUT you, or maybe he's from Mexico.
If your idea of preparing for the campaign trail is getting blessed by a crazy preacher who was literally hunting "witches" in Africa, I don't want you giving your blessing as President to the routine oppression of everyone from Muslims to atheists to gays and lesbians.
Sounds better than a candidate that spent 20 years in the church of a preacher that routinely screamed "GODD@*# AMERICA!" from the pulpit.
If you wear magic underwear and think it protects you from fire and bullets, I don't want you swearing an oath to protect and defend the United States. Because I don't think you're sufficiently centered in reality to properly manage the country's problems.
Yours was call the "Magic Negro". Does that count?
If your solutions for pressing state and national problems is prayer, or as Bill Maher put it, "YEEHAW!!! JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!!!", I don't want you at the helm of the ship of state.
This country came to be by men just like that. Not Bill Maher, but Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, etc. Bill Maher is just a moron.
If your history on GLBT issues includes having a husband with a "Pray-The-Gay-Away" clinic, I don't want you anywhere near the levers of power that give you control over civil rights, health policy or anything else of substance.
You're just afraid you "special friend" will go straight, and leave you dateless.
If your worldview's projections of the future includes the return of long-dead deities, apocalyptic wars, extermination of infidels, the end of the world, firestorms, death, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria, I DON'T WANT YOUR FINGER ON THE ****ING BUTTON!!!
OMG! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT! My dogs and cats DO live together. Look around yourself, DUmbass. We're heading into the 5th level of Hell now!
If there were any all-out open atheists on the ticket, I'd be likely to be supporting them, but as atheists are still second-class citizens, I'm stuck trying to figure out which candidates can keep the effects of their delusions about magical sky-daddies down to a dull-roar and out of their judgments as President.
We've elected a Catholic and a Muslim as presidents already. I'm sure we could elect an atheist as well.
Sad, isn't it?
For you, yes.