Land of Oz

Sigh...

Rats! It looks like everything I voted for - lost. What a bummer. I guess that proves something, but I don't know what. As I write this, the vultures, er lawyers are starting to circle the state of Ohio, but it looks like a lost cause. (What state is tall in the middle and round at both ends?)

The gay marriage thing got hammered all across the states. I guess there's no surprise there. I'm really beginning to worry about a theocracy cropping up. You might be surprised at how it sneaks in here and there. For example, even though I'm a 22 year veteran of the military, served in Saudi Arabia, and was around during the end of the Vietnam war, I'm not eligible to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), because I won't sign a statement saying I believe in God. Even though I spent 22 years fighting to protect a document that states, freedom from religion, I can't join an organization that supposedly honors those who fight in foreign wars because they want to enforce a religious belief.

There's a bill currently rattling around the house and senate that would keep the Supreme Court from reviewing any laws that someone makes based on their religious belief. I hate to lend support to all the doomsday enthusiasts out there, but is this the beginning of some new Crusades? The white cowboy hat wearing theocrat versus the white turban wearing theocrats? Ever higher deficits to pay for this? Crappier health care and more power to businesses? Oil soaked wetlands and clear cut forests? Scary crap coming this way.

2fers Theocracy Watch and Not only me, and not just now!