A Message to the Religious Right November 12, 2008
Posted by velorucion in Activism, Anarchism, Buddhism, Feminism, Politics.add a comment
We do not believe in your god
You are not our elders
Many of your ‘morals’ are our ’sins’
But we believe in and support your freedom to believe what you believe and to live how you wish to live
All we ask in return is the same magnanimity, the same goodwill
Keep your noses out of our uteruses and homes
Out of our loved ones’ private lives and relationships
Keep your threats off of our president
We don’t want your ‘morals,’ we don’t want your lifestyle
We have come to our own ‘morals’ with careful analyses of lifetimes of evidence
We are happy with our ethical codes and happy to live in a country whose constitution guarantees us the right to follow them
We believe in individual freedom, not taking freedom away
We believe in love, not bigotry and hatred
We believe in peace, not war
We believe in unity, not division
And we believe that if you keep trying to foist your beliefs on the rest of us, you are a political campaign and not a church and therefore should be taxed, like the rest of us
May the Catholic Church, Focus on the Family, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stop their ideological tyranny
May these churches and organizations engage instead in the Christ-like behavior of helping those who are suffering, of providing community and resources for those in need
And may we all enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by our founding constitution and so bravely defended for generations
Sincerely,
The Liberated
Everywhere, USA
