In case you all weren't clear

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I’m not a Christian any more because that word in my country now means ignorant, bloodthirsty, hate-filled hypocrite and nothing more. The five of you who aren’t, I apologize.

I don’t tolerate Republicans or “conservatives” or any of that shit because you support the ideology and the party and the people who hate me, who want me and my friends dead, who say that I’m not American, and who want to strip us all of our civil rights and send us to concentration camps. This is not hyperbole; I’ve seen it all said by people in power.

My country is under occupation by a hostile power that seeks a theocracy and the abrogation of the Constitution, war without end, and the destruction of the middle class. No one who makes less than a half million a year benefits from them financially and no one who believes in the Enlightenment ideals of our country’s founders has any business agreeing with their ideas.

It’s total war now. I reject your god of conquest, your worship of wealth, your hate of everyone different or weak, and your ignorance.

Come and fucking get it and find out what armed liberals are like. .40 hollowpoints kill right-wingers too.

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Actually, Reagan spoke out publically against the Briggs Amendment in California, circa 1978--a risk for any Republican seeking national office at the time, and was in a lot of ways a powerful leader against discrimination and oppression. The Moral Majority was Jerry Falwell's idea, not Ronald Reagan's.

Not that I am letting Reagan or his staff off the hook for anything they should be responsible for, and there certainly is plenty, I'm just a believer in credit where credit's due, right or wrong.

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I didn't know about Briggs- thanks for pointing it out. And in googling it, "gay" groups of all political stripes give Reagan credit for opposing it.

As for the Moral Majority, I did know it was started by Falwell and other religious leaders and not Reagan. The similarity is that Reagan and both Bushs, while not themselves all that religiously conservative, all found themselves beholden to these groups for the support they were given by these groups.

What concerns me is that after this latest election, conservative religious groups are not at all being shy about holding out their hands and demanding payoff. They're asking for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages, appointment of religiously conservative Supreme Court justices who will rule favorably for them in matters of overturning Roe v Wade, allowing for school prayer and the posting of the 10 Commandments, school "choice" (code for government $ to subsidize private religious schools), and a whole other slew of things.

Now, the question is whether or not Bush will decide he got what he wanted out of these groups and will conduct his 2nd term with an eye towards doing what's best for the country instead of what's best for those right-wing nutjobs. By doing the latter, he will fuck the GOP for 2008.

I think we may see something falling in the middle, with an eye toward Jeb running in 2008. He'll need the support of the nutjobs as well.

Ahh, intrigue....