Sharia Law Courtesy of the Christian Right

While you were sleeping, a state in our supposedly democratic union of the United States of America is making all forms of contraception and all forms of abortion...illegal. When I was still a kid, the type of folks who are today pushing these sectarian observances into general law were back then considered by the majority of the population as belonging to the lunatic fringe. They still are among the lunatics, but they are no longer on the fringe. This is due in part to voter apathy among those of us who are more sane. Yes, there are a growing number of people who believe that their vote doesn't matter. Well, you non-voters need to ask yourselves if you are still convinced of this. Not voting got far right-wing legislators into office, and they got busy doing their devil's work. They want a theocratic state, and they are going to get one if the apathy set leaves it to us remaining active liberal progressives to try to keep their hands from tearing up our Constitution. The Christian right votes by rank and file like military regiments. They will make homosexuality and masturbation felony crimes if you let them. Their abettors are rewriting history, creating a myth based on out-of-context snippets that our Founding Fathers were all fanatical fundamentalist Christians just like themselves. Never mind that the Founders of our Country were Deists (go look it up in the dictionary) who worshiped above all else the trinity of Reason, Science and Nature. Never mind that our Founding Fathers were trying to do everything they could to prevent the nightmare of State Religion that had caused so much miserable civil war and sectarian persecution in their ancestral Europe. Right or wrong, the Christian Right has a well-worked-out agenda that spans everything from making sure sex is only for procreation, to showing no mercy even if the pregnant one is still an undeveloped child who could die from the process of childbirth. They are blind fanatics who brutishly see the world in terms of black and white "facts", and want to force us to live under the mindset of superstitious peasants living four thousand years ago in the deserts of the Middle East. Science they throw in the trash-bin unless it can make them money, but don't dare make any reference to natural selection if you're going to use that profitable scientific technology! And forget responsible stewardship of the natural world God gave us. They believe all the Earth is for their plunder -- a most un-Christian attitude, but then, they are just as selective about what they choose to believe in the Bible as the progressive Christians they criticize. Let us hope that the next Christian Sharia laws they pass do not include stoning suspected "fornicators" in the streets by mob judgment. Methinks they need to develop a sense of humor about all this (anti-spiritual) religion they take so seriously: go and rent Monty Python's Life of Brian and get over yourselves!