Religious Zealotry Meme Debunked

The far lefties are trying to scare the middle with charges against the right that the conservatives are religious zealots trying to establish a theocracy (see Maureen Dowd). First, I think it's interesting to note that they find religious zealots trying to establish a theocracy to be a bad thing, while at the same time seeming (at least on the far left) to be constantly undermining the war on terror, which is, in essence, a war in which we are fighting religious zealots trying to establish a theocracy. I'm generally stunned that liberals don't see what Pres. Bush has done for women's rights, human rights in general, gay rights, etc. in Afghanistan and Iraq and praise him unabashedly. I always want to shout: Remember!!! They've shown us the kind of government they want to have, because they had it in Afghanistan. Do you REALLY want us to back down so THAT can happen to us?

Anyway... that wasn't the original purpose of this post. My point is that when you look around the blogosphere and see all the conservatives, you see... um... normalcy. Even irreverence, and playfulness. Case in point: The Cotillion, a collaborative blog by women on the right. These women KNOW they are women. They include sexual innuendo for humor in their posts. One of the contributors to The Cotillion is Atlas Shrugs who put a post on her site titled, "Deep Throat Gives No Pleasure". The point is, these women are not uptight religious fundamentalists, they are real, powerful women; women that are complete, from their intellect to their sexuality.

Yes, there are religious fundamentalists on the right. Guess what? There are religious fundamentalists on the left too. And while GWB may speak of his spirituality (not stating that his RELIGION is right, but actually just speaking of his own spirituality), he wasn't campaigning in black churches! Suddenly playing the "religion" card to get African Americans to vote for them. And the Republicans don't have the African American leaders with "Reverend" preceding their name either. HOWEVER!!! I have a sneaking suspicion that Rev. M L King Jr. would be a Republican today. It seems that the Dems use the black churches to keep the victim culture firmly in place. My recommendation to African Americans: The Republicans are interested in the content of your character, not the color of your skin. We don't think there's anything that skin color should mean you can or cannot do, or be.

I think the whole religious theocracy meme is a canard, and people on the right need to make it known that it does not represent us. Look around at the real conservatives, not what the MSM or the far left would have you believe are the conservatives, and you find average (or above average in many categories) people... most of whom would be as uncomfortable with a "fundamentalist Christian" state as a secular Democrat (though possibly for different reasons).