As a child of the '50s, I can remember church bells ringing hourly on Sunday. Church all day on TV. All stores were closed. Nobody worked. It was expected that everyone would put on their Sunday best and march blindly into stained-glass buildings. I can remember swimming pools where boys and girls were separated. Sex wasn't taught at home or in schools. TV shows had twin beds for husbands and wives. We were essentially controlled by the moral convictions of a self-anointed conventional society. Basically, no one had a life of their own. Thankfully over the years, free will, common sense, and advanced thinking became conventional and the majority of society expressed themselves openly and honestly.
Apparently, that isn't acceptable to the reigning minority of moral police who insist on forcing their rules of life on the rest of us. These suffering few are trying to tilt society in their chosen direction whether we like it or not. They constantly police the airwaves, ads, trends or editorial pages for every opportunity to exaggerate circumstances they think attacks the moral values of America as they see it.
As of July 2004, there were approximately 293,027,571 people living in the United States according to the latest data. In this last election 59,000,000 people voted to put George Bush back in office. I can remember when the President of the United States was the most powerful, respected person in the world because he listened to and represented all the people of these United States. That isn't the case anymore. We are the most hated, disrespected country in the world because of current leadership. Worse, these 59,000,000 people are telling the remaining 234,027,571 people how to live our lives. They are the true Taliban within the U.S. When you juxtapose the letters and syllables in taliban, you end up with ban-it-all. Which is appropriate since this is what these zealots are trying to do.
If you have been paying attention, every time this administration passes a bill or regulation, it always has warm and fuzzy words attached like "homeland," "family," "values," "moral," etc. What it doesn't have attached is "free" as in free will, free thinking, free choice. Let there be no misunderstanding, this is a battle on our "homeland" to protect our "family" from the misguided "values" of invasive "moral" bigots. Unfortunately, they have the high ground right now and we have a very big hill to climb.
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