And now a political interlude

[valarltd]

	John Edwards Score: 43	Agree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Line-Item Veto
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Oh e-GAD! Not quite what I wanted to hear.

My list in order:
Edwards, Biden, Richardson,Kuninch, Obama, Clinton, Dodd, Gravel
Giuliani, Romney, McCain, Hunter, Huckabee, Paul, Thompson, Tancredo

Six years ago, I would have never voted Democrat. But now...

I can no longer vote for a party that is in bed with people who want to see folks like me and my daughter executed or at least silenced and "cured." I've quit demanding society hold the closet door shut for me.

I can no longer vote for a party in bed with people who would remove access not just to abortion but to contraception. People who believe sex ed and anti-cancer vaccines encourage promiscuity. I have two daughters that would be wasted as breeding chattel.

I can no longer vote for a party that is actively working to make a Christian Nation on every level right down to individual households trying to "outbreed the heathen." This would be why I have four kids, instead of two. And I have only four because I woke up and quit before I had five.

There are very good reasons for women and gays and religious minorities to NEVER pull the lever for a Republican until the party gets out of bed with the Religious Right. Because until they do, anyone who is not a wealthy straight white Christian male is going to get fucked.

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Six years ago, I would have never voted Democrat

Really?!?!? I hadn't realized this has been such a recent change for you. What tipped you over the edge?

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I think it was a slow drifting away from the church, mostly.

I went to the sorts of churches that called them "demon-rats" and painted liberals as hell-bound baby-killing perverts out to destroy American and the family.

Once I woke up and realized there was no place in the church for someone like me, and I started seeing what a hash Republicans have made of the country, I started thinking. I rediscovered my childhood feminism. I got active in the GLBT movement when my daughter came out, and in the process came out a little more myself.

Basically I lost my fascism, quit reading The Handmaid's tale with grimly joyful expectation and decided to be myself instead of faking what God wanted me to be.

And all of that ends up adding up to "liberal." which still equals hell-bound, but I don't care.