Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy,
where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
Major Christian fundamentalists are complaining that the
Bush regime has not gone far and fast enough in imposing a theocracy, and
demand that the government move to ban gay marriage and abortion.
The religious right is overall setting the agenda within the
Republican Party right now, but the theocrats who organized support for Bush in
the 2004 elections want to cash in their chips.
Fundamentalists like Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family even
threaten to drop their support for Republicans in the 2006 elections if their
demands are not met. Tony Perkins,
president of the Family Research Council, said, “People are getting
concerned that they have not seen some of these issues move forward that were
central to the 2004 election.” And
these people are holding private meetings with top Republican leaders to set
the agenda leading up to November.
Already, Sen. Bill Frist is moving to force a vote on a Constitutional
amendment banning gay marriage over the summer.
After two far-right justices have been appointed to the
Supreme Court, the bible and creationism making their way into public school
curriculum, and abortion being banned in South Dakota, the forces pushing for a
full-blown theocracy are still not satisfied.
There is a relentless drive to establish their narrow and hateful brand
of Christian fundamentalism, and this needs to be met with massive resistance that
takes the moral high ground. As the Call
to Drive Out the Bush Regime states, People
who steal elections and believe they’re on a “mission from God” will
not go without a fight.
(Source: ‘Conservative Christians Criticize Republicans’, NY
Times, 5/15/06)