Post by pchallinor on Mar 17, 2012 23:42:14 GMT
Warning! The following piece invites you to read a piece of journalism which many of you may find distressing. In fact, I hope for your sakes that you do find it distressing. I'd worry for your sanity if you didn't.
Look, I'm not kidding here, folks. Seriously.
First some background. As some of you may know, various parts of the United States are under the control of legislators who are themselves - or are beholden to - religious fundamentalists of various stripes; mostly Protestant, but often Catholic or Mormon.
Texas is one such state. It is dominated by the Republican Party, and by a particular strain of that virus. As a result, the Republicans of Texas - like their equivalents elsewhere - are incapable of seeing any contradiction in the fact that, at one and the same time, they demand that The Government™ get out of their lives (at least as far as their money-making and their 'right' to shoot anyone they don't like the look of is concerned), and also insist that that self-same Government intrude upon the private, personal and medical matters of those wretched elements of society of which it deeply disapproves; you know, gays, blacks, Hispanics and women.
Continued by The Judge
Look, I'm not kidding here, folks. Seriously.
First some background. As some of you may know, various parts of the United States are under the control of legislators who are themselves - or are beholden to - religious fundamentalists of various stripes; mostly Protestant, but often Catholic or Mormon.
Texas is one such state. It is dominated by the Republican Party, and by a particular strain of that virus. As a result, the Republicans of Texas - like their equivalents elsewhere - are incapable of seeing any contradiction in the fact that, at one and the same time, they demand that The Government™ get out of their lives (at least as far as their money-making and their 'right' to shoot anyone they don't like the look of is concerned), and also insist that that self-same Government intrude upon the private, personal and medical matters of those wretched elements of society of which it deeply disapproves; you know, gays, blacks, Hispanics and women.
Continued by The Judge