power pussy says

i’m all for it.  i think everyone should have the freedom to participate in any religion that speaks to them, or to refrain from participating in religion altogether.

i DON’T, however, think any one religion should take precedence over the rest; which, when you read or hear the arguments posed by certain radical conservatives, is really what all of this is about.

and, once again, it returns to the thought of what i’m going to call “Hysterical Blindness”:

our generation is among the first to deal with the social repurcussions of the Civil Rights Movement of the ’60s, the feminist movement, and the queer movement.  suddenly, thanks to the evolutions of mass media outlets like The Internet and television, we ordinary folk have a means to not only uninhibitedly express ourselves, but also to reach out and forge our own identities and find spaces that suit our specific needs.

that spark in individuality and the wide availability of knowledge had consequences: we aren’t made to consume just the same media as is available to everybody else, and we find strength in numbers.  there are others who feel the same way about certain socio-political issues, there’re others who can commiserate with our experiences as the Other, and that communal bond is paving the way for us to take action.

but change is scary.  at least, it is to those who are suddenly being called out on their Privilege and subesquently having their once unshakeable Power threatened.

and what do you do when unwanted change that could redefine your own identity comes about?

you panic.

and you respond irrationally, hysterically; turning a blind eye and deaf ear to those whom you think would take your power.

suddenly, those who sat in a place of Privilege are misinterpreting our cause’s movement for equity, believing, it seems, that we’re only out to turn the tables and put them in our place.

really, though, all we want is equity.  we want a government that isn’t ruled by religion, because no singular religion represents the whole of our citizenry.

true, we were founded on Christian doctrine, but our Founding Fathers knew change was going to come.  they devised a Constitution that is amendable; it’s meant to be changed, meant to satisfy the needs of a country that they hoped would grow and prosper.

and it has.  and to want to go back to The Tea Party days goes against everything our Founding Fathers wanted for us.