Well, it's all over. My anger and sadness has considerably subsided throughout today (I think I am out of my crying phase, although who knows what could happen as I think myself to sleep tonight), but I still remain baffled by the choice a little more than half this country made (and I can't see that confusion going away anytime soon).
I absolutely cannot believe that the most important issue on the minds of so many voters dealt with morality. This man (Bush) sent our troops to pre-emptively strike Iraq without telling us, the citizens paying for it, the plain truth about it. He then arrogantly claimed victory in that war, even though it was not really over and is still going on right now (and will continue to go on for much longer than we were ever led to believe). They voted for this guy because they don't think gay people should be allowed the RIGHT to get married and they don't believe a woman has the RIGHT to get an abortion.
I will never be able to stop thinking how completely absurd that is. Ok, so I'm not, in any way, saying that anyone who believes in religion is brainwashed, but if there are this many people in our country that are so firmly against something that their personal beliefs recognize as wrong, that they would put other citizens' freedoms in jeopardy, then there are certainly some circuits that have gone haywire in their minds. I have yet to hear or read one (or even half of one) a good reason why America, as a political entity, needs to ban gay marriage and abortion. Sure, you may not believe that gay marriage is right...but that doesn't mean your opinion is right for everyone else. Two gay men or women getting married does not and will never affect you, so don't worry about it! And, sure, you may believe that abortion is morally wrong, but it will never effect you if you don't want it to. The beauty about the abortion thing is that it is something that occurs within your own body. So, unless you are kidnapped and forced to have an abortion, you have a choice regarding what you want to do. If you believe abortion is wrong, than don't get one! What is wrong, however, is imposing this view upon another woman (who maybe was raped and impregnated, or is addicted to heroine and knows that she would not be able to provide proper care to this baby) as a law forbidding her from making her own decision about what to do about the fetus growing inside her own body.
I think this country is at a point where religion has become somewhat of a road block in progress. We are moving backwards in the areas of women's rights and gay rights. I am not saying, at all, that religion is bad and that politicians shouldn't be religious people; however, once it becomes a top-3 selling point for a candidate and his/her decisions negatively effect some citizens of this country, they've taken it just a little too far.
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