Gemidos otoñales

I feel charged due to a discussion with my mother over the principles of this country.

This is not nor ever will it be a Christian nation. We do not live in a Theocracy, we live in a Republic. The law of the land is not governed by religious politics, but by the voice of everyone — Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Taoist, etc.. We as a nation cannot sit silent, turning a blind eye to publicly funded, state organizations and institutions posting and/or promoting one religious ideology over another.

Within the first two decades of the founding of this nation, President John Adams sent to Senate a bill, a treaty, proposing amnesty between the nation of Tripoli, which had been causing issue with its piratry. This very bill, signed by one of the Founding Fathers of this nation — one which very clearly separates the churches of its people from the laws of the state — cited:

« As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. »

Quite blatantly does Adams represent the voices of all his constituents by stating that this government is not, in fact, the voice of any one church, but that of its peoples as a whole. That is the most important aspect of this nation — freedom to practice AND freedom from oppression based on religion or lack thereof.

The sooner Christians stop acting persecuted and victimized, and the sooner that they realize that they are the aggressors by instituting unconstitutional edicts reinforcing the Christian Church’s status within the government of this powerful nation, the sooner they will come to recognize that their majority status does not grant them the power to overpower the rights of the minority.

And that is all I have to say on the matter.