If They are Allowed to Discriminate Against One Group of Americans, What Makes Anyone Believe That it Will End With That One Group?...

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Oh smack!! . . .

President George W. Bush’s former chief strategist Matthew Dowd on Sunday likened Christians in Arizona who are using religion to discriminate against LGBT people to Islamic terrorists.

Last week, Arizona's legislature passed a bill that would allow business owners to assert religious beliefs as an excuse to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers.

On Sunday, ABC's Martha Raddatz asked Dowd to predict if Gov. Jan Brewer (R) would sign the bill into law.

"I think, in the end, Gov. Brewer is probably going to veto this because it seems like an easy veto for her to do because of everything that's going in the business economy there," Dowd explained.

"This is one of those problems when people use religion as a way to sort of enforce discriminatory practices," he continued. "People used religion back in the 1860s when they defended slavery. They used religion to defend slavery."

"We've used religion to go to war. People have criticized Islam because they use religion to fight people and kill people. This is the problem with that [bill]."

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If The Gadfly didn't know any better, he would postulate that it appears that the traditional, moderate wing of the GOP has finally reached the end of their rope in patience and has had just about enough of the hate-filled Teabaggers and the Christian-Taliban wing of their party.

When the hard right conservatives start utilizing their legislative majority power to deny specific segments of their fellow Americans the same rights which they would grant to themselves and solely to those who think, believe and look like themselves, then that is un-American - as well as a direct assault on The Constitution and every decent thing this country is supposed to stand for.

Republican Matthew Dowd has only pointed out that which The Gadfly and many others have been saying for the past several years - namely that the Tea Party and the religious right have absolutely no respect for democracy, for fairness, for equal protection under the law, or for plain old common decency.  They are, in every sense of the word, political extremists who, as Mr. Dowd has accurately noted, would fit right in with the depraved terrorists of extreme Islam - for both groups use their chosen religion as a weapon of hate to demonize and ostracize others, and treat those who's beliefs are different, as people less deserving of the rights they have greedily reserved for themselves.

It is the same sickness which has existed in organized religious circles, and that has plagued the advancement of civilized human societies since the dawn of mankind's evolution.  And it is long past time for the majority of Americans who do not believe as these people do, to stand up and forcefully let their voices be heard.

Enough fucking already!!



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