Someone on the television just reminded us that we are afterall a "faith-based nation". He offered this as explanation for the election of Bush to a second term. Never before has this concept been clear to me. I now see that this nation is viewed by most of its citizens as a club of God-fearers. This is not at all the collection of tolerant, freedom-loving and courageous folks who, despising oppression and able to endorse with conviction the welcoming inscription of the statue of liberty, set up this country as a refuge. Don't get me wrong. I am well aware of the enormity of conservative America, but I thought a larger portion of that mass was tempered by compassion for the rest of us. I was wrong.
We are nolonger about inclusion. We are now about the enforcement of someone's boundaries for right and wrong.
The idea that a President should give us comfort by steering a moral course for us is so foreign to me that I wonder how I could have actually grown up amidst these people.
I thought the President was supposed to keep us safe (even while we are performing sex acts he may not agree with).
If you say "faith-based nation" three times fast, you end up saying "faith-bashed nation".
"Perge modo et qua te ducit via dirige gressum," said Venus to Aeneas.
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