Editor
I suppose that today (6-6-06) is the day when the mythological “beast” of fundamentalist mythology actually rears its ugly head. Or maybe it was yesterday
It is a sad and cynical day in Washington when it was announced that our Executive branch would try again to secure a Constitutional Amendment limiting marriage. This would be the first time the Constitution would be used to limit what should be a basic human right in this nation.
Perhaps the “marriage” that is really the most threatening to the values of our nation is the polygamous political alliance between the more fanatic fringe elements of religious conservatism, energy pillagers, rapacious ecological abusers, economic profiteers, fear-mongering militarists and their minions of lobbyists. And how tragic that such ideological incest should be housed within the confines of the formerly proud and grand old political party of liberator Abraham Lincoln, environmentalist Theodore Roosevelt, and Cold War peacemaker Dwight Eisenhower!
How cynical to trample on the rights of a minority simply to provide a distraction from the truly immoral issues of American political life today!
Rev. Dr. John F. Herman
No Longer Silent: Clergy for Justice
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