Dogmatronic Politics

Personal Opinion: A politician evoking Religion and Prayer to Bolster their campaign for president is like an American Idol contestant singing “God Bless the USA”. Tacky, Risky, and Shallow. Sadly, it doesn’t garner quite the same end result. Over the last twelve years, the Republican party has slowly shifted into this bizarre Evangelical Christian Party; by pandering to a base of working class, presumably politically ignorant masses, and presenting this image that their freedom to express religious beliefs is being taken away from them.

The fulcrum point of this argument is, of course, marriage. I refuse to use the term ‘gay marriage’. It’s marriage, period. The argument is over the definition of the word, and NOT over legalizing or legitimizing a different form of it. The right side makes a lot of arguments to solidify the definition of marriage, and make it exclusive to heterosexual couples, by thumping the bible. Those arguments are really invalidated by constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. Honestly, there was no constitutional definition of marriage for a reason. The government shouldn’t really be giving benefits for the forming of personal contracts between people. That said, if government is going to dish out benefits for such a thing it has a legal and moral obligation to do so in a fair and equal manner in every instance.

I enjoy the argument by a couple of court clerks, in NY state, that signing marriage licenses for homosexual couples tramples on their freedom of religion. When you work for the government, you are accepting all of the constitutional requirements thereof. That means you’re not acting as a person, you’re acting as a representative of the government. Signing a legal document does not constitute a personal moral approval of the contents within it. If you can’t be professional enough to realize that, well then, you really shouldn’t be officiating state business in the first place.

The other insane argument, and it’s sadly one that works rather well, is that ‘legalizing’ marriage equality will result in homosexuality being taught in public schools. I must have missed the lesson plan in school about marriage. In fact Moral and social concepts were not a part of my curriculum at all. I’m sure if there was a class on the topic for students to take, parents would have the power to request their child not be a part of it. Morals and ideologies are not things ‘taught’ in school, unless your parents elected to enroll you in a private school of the religious variety. It is the responsibility of the parents to impart these concepts, and the right of the child to build or deconstruct them as they deem necessary.

Lastly, a corporation is *NOT* a person in spite of what some politicians believe. I feel that corporations are a monster unto their own and require political oversight to ensure that the monetary freight train doesn’t obliterate the masses when it derails in it’s insatiable quest for money and power. Politicians wouldn’t feel so compelled to pray for resolution to our debt crisis if the corporations, pouring gold into their pious pockets, would pay their fair share of the tax burden. The sad truth of the matter is that the ability to avoid having to pay taxes is a luxury only the wealthy can afford.
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