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Related: About this forumAmerica Moves Forward with Obama as Republicans Double Their Attacks on Gays and Women
http://www.politicususa.com/america-moves-obama-republicans-double-attacks-gays-women.htmlAmerica Moves Forward with Obama as Republicans Double Their Attacks on Gays and Women
By: Rmuse
Feb. 1st, 2013
It is important for a nations leaders to prioritize their agenda for the coming year, and it is expected they would assign importance to issues regarding their countrys economic health, national security, and benefits for its people. In his Inauguration Address, President Obamas priorities for his second term were immigration reform, global climate change, sane gun controls, growing the economy, and he stressed the importance of the nation coming together to assure the Constitutions guarantee of equal rights is extended to every citizen regardless of gender, sexual preference, or economic station. It has taken a little over a week, but finally as Republicans floundered to find a specific priority besides obstruction, corporatism, austerity, and gun proliferation, they picked up where they left off from the last session of Congress and officially announced their highest priority is imposing policy shaped by right wing Christianity on Americans.
Speaker of the House John Boehner made the announcement to an anti-choice group he addressed at a National Right to Life rally, and he did not have to make it official after Republicans in Congress began the 113th session with a personhood bill, opposition to the VAWA, and balking at immigration reform that includes same-sex couples. Boehner said Republicans were focusing on working to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, and that it was the GOPs most fundamental goal this year to commit ourselves to doing everything we can to protect the sanctity of life and pledged to make legal abortion a relic of the past. It is ironic that Boehner is using the Christian bible, a true relic of the past as the guiding force for making legal abortion a relic of the past, especially since a majority of Americans believe it is a womans personal choice and do not want legal abortion restricted via overturning Roe v. Wade. However, the theocrats have a different opinion, and they will waste more of Americans time and money to replace the Constitution with the Christian bible.
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Republicans have found themselves in an unenviable position of lacking support from mainstream America that is not founded in extremist Christianity or guns, and instead of abandoning their two-year war on womens reproductive rights, they have doubled down and made it their top priority for 2013. Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bibles sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting the Presidents agenda of addressing gun violence, the economy, jobs, climate change, and most importantly, equality for all Americans; even women and their right to choose their reproductive health.
The religious right, Dominionists and theocracy advocates, have been attempting to impose their will on Americans for decades, and they have always had willing partners in Republican ranks. It is curious that the party that decries government intervention into Americans personal lives insists on spending another session of Congress intervening in a womans right to choose and it is down to one decision they determined is the hill they are willing to die on, and it is their choice to support and defend the bible as the law of the land instead of the nations founding document. As more Americans understand that Republicans are working toward a theocratic institution dominated by patriarchs wasting taxpayer money and precious time to punish women and make their reproductive decisions for them, they will continue rejecting them at the ballot box because at this point, rejecting Republicans is rejecting Dominionism and its archaic theocratic edicts.
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