Today's Mood: Attempting to be accepting
Today's Song: "Welcome to Duloc" (read on as to why)

So I was reading an article yesterday
that said this one Christian organization is completely fed up with the direction America is taking. After gay marriage teeters on being legal (and is in some parts), the group has decided to cluster in South Carolina and secede from the USA.

My first thoughts on this were, "It'll never work." People in any religious teaching, not just Christian, may mean well, but theocracies (a government ruled by religion) are dangerous. It's part of the reason we came into the Salem witch trials. And the general truth of America is, no matter how well intentioned the leaders may be, they are still imperfect fallible humans, and there will be corruption. Not to mention the divison due to denominations.

My second thought was, "Whoa, wait a minute, hate speech?" What the Hell happened to freedom of religion and all that?

Apparentally, according to this strongly-worded article, and I quote: "Preaching Christianity will soon be outlawed as 'hate speech'." Now, that probably means people can't walk up to other people in the streets anymore and be evangelists. But, if it's carried to the extremity of them actually outlawing Christian churches, then something is very (extremely bad word)'ed up with this country. I doubt it's going to happen in my time. I know it will happen, but not in my time. And if it does...man, that's outlawing a part of myself. I won't stand for it. But I won't run off to a theocracy, either.

I think I know where part of this springs from. Christians are getting part of the blame for 9/11. The extremist terrorist group (who I absolutely refuse to identify with any culture or religion except that of terrorism) were quoted as saying that America was being punished for having Christians in their country. Having a "Christian" for a president for the past 12 years (Clinton claimed to be Baptist, remember) hasn't helped much either.

*sighs, massages forehead* I just don't know anymore. This entire world is just screwed up.