A message from a former Republican to the Republican Party
>> Thursday, November 6, 2008
When I registered to vote in 1978, at the age of 18, I registered as a Republican. I remained a Republican until four years ago, when I changed my registration to the Democratic party, just prior to the 2004 elections. My reasons for changing parties? One simple reason--you have forgotten who you are and who you represent, and that you are bound to the principles upon which this nation was founded, of liberty and equality for all, no exceptions.
You have forgotten the "People" in "We The People" and have abandoned your defense of and duty to the great Constitution of the United States of America for "the win", even at the cost of the freedom, liberty, and equality that our Constitution guarantees each and every citizen of this great nation. You have allied yourselves with and identified as the "base" of your once great party, the Christian Religious Right, and abandoned the principles of the separation of church and state for theocratic dominionism. Your abandonment of the principles laid out in The Establishment Clause found in the First Amendment of our Constitution has been disatrous for our nation, and if you continue to abandon the Constitution for religious ideology as an essential and central aspect of our laws and foreign policy decisions, it will spell the end of this once great Democratic Republic.
I end this with a quote from one of your party's greatest, Barry Goldwater. *
The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.
Heed his warning, or your party will fail.
*Thanks to RW
3 comments:
Well said! Love the Goldwater quote! Old Barry was a wise man. Did you know that his son refused to support McCain.?
Their party has failed alreay. They just can't admit they are wrong, wrong, wrong!
The republicans have shown what happens when fear and ignorance dictate policy.
I like the Goldwater quote too but some religious ideals are a part of our government and they are for the most part good.
The ideals and principles upon which our unique government was founded were NOT religious, but rather the principles and ideals of the 18th century Age of Enlightenment. Our founding fathers, who well understood the oppression of theocratic government and religious oppression were adamant over creating a government that was free of any religious influence or stronghold. Although most of them were devoutly religious themselves, they understood that their faith should be reflected through how they lived their personal lives and how they conducted themselves morally, but that religious doctrine and/or dogma should not be translated into government policy.
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