The new party of political correctness
The latest national feigned outrage is over Barack Obama’s statement that people are bitter and cling to guns or religion. Any statement that even remotely suggests something negative about religion or guns during election campaigns is met with vehement opposition, no matter what the actual intention. This is a continuation of the “war on Christmas” or the “war on Christianity.”
During the 1980s especially, we had political correctness from the left. Everyone had to accept homosexuality with open arms and were forced to wear colorblind glasses. Everyone was equally capable, regardless or their actual abilities.
Now, it’s the religious right that is “oppressed.” They are victims of the “rabid left” as I’ve heard it called by right wingers. And the media has pandered to their whims. Now the facts have to be balanced by the right-wing spin on the facts. Today, that is what is meant by fair and balanced.
Obama has apologized for his wording, but he was 100% correct when he said people cling to their religion, guns, and hatred for certain groups of people. To some, that is all they have and they’re afraid it will be taken away from them. The national debt is of no concern. The wars are of little concern as long as they don’t have to go fight. The economy is of little concern. Unemployment usually results in increased crime, but that’s okay as long as they have their guns.
We’ve seen what happens when religion gets integrated into politics and the suffering that results. Some say we need even more religion in politics. With religion in politics, we have bigger government and more government intrusions into our lives. Our founding fathers specifically wanted a separation of church and state. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
But people cling to their religion because they are afraid. In the news today, the story is the Obama’s statement about religion may be a turning point. If not for all the feigned outrage and our “liberal media” hounding this story, most people wouldn’t have even been aware of it. Where is the outrage over the fact that we’ve been at war and occupying the nation of Iraq for some five years and John McCain still doesn’t know the difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites?
This country has some screwed up priorities.
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