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have written this to send:
I am a Democrat. I am a liberal. I am a Christian.
I am a Democrat, as was John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.. I am a liberal, as was Martin Luther King, Jr, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Jefferson. I am a Christian, as most of our Presidents have been and some have claimed to be.
Read it again: Liberal Christian Democrat.
I will not allow government and religion to mix. I will not stand idly by while people are punished for committing a “sin” that victimizes no one. I am not going to sit down and be happy and listen to what the Religious Right tells me to think. I will not tolerate a religion based on persecution and hatred and judgement by man. I will not tolerate a government which caters to religion. We have man-made laws to protect victims. If a man cannot visit another man in the hospital, who is the victim?
I don’t say I am pro-life and support a war that kills over a thousand brave American troops and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. I don’t waste my time wondering if two men holding hands is a sin when over two million children went to bed starving to death last night. I am not going to worry about your children meeting and learning about other faiths because I am not insecure about their faith in mine.
I am confident enough in my personal faith to learn about others. I am confident enough in who I am to learn about other people’s culture and beliefs. I am not scared they will infect me. I am hopeful they can show me new ways to celebrate the Almighty.
I am done having the other side tell me what I believe, tell me where I will spend my afterlife, and contradicting the very core of our religion by supporting the death of innocents.
This is my country. Christianity is my religion. Democracy is my government. I am reclaiming them as mine. You are done calling yourself Christian while supporting murder. You are done calling it Democracy when you don’t listen to every voice. You are done promoting faith-based initiatives when you yourself have no faith.
You are done rewriting the Constitution with your tattered bible. The bible you have removed the words “love,” “forgiveness,” and “judge not” from. They will remain separate.
Read it one more time. Learn it well. Liberal. Democrat. Christian. I am the future.
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