My Correct Views on Everything

Here's something to consider in the upcoming election year as you make your way to the polls to vote. Many people choose their political candidate based on religious or moral considerations. For example, many right-wing voters will eagerly make their way to the voting booth if Mike Huckabee wins the Republican nomination. The rationale? Most assuredly it will have to do with Huckabee's religious background and stance on moral issues like abortion. Here is Huckabee's position:

"I support and have always supported passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. My convictions regarding the sanctity of life have always been
clear and consistent, without equivocation or wavering. I believe that Roe v. Wade should be over-turned." www.mikehuckabee.com

I'm not arguing the validity of pro-life v. pro-choice positions (although some of you will inevitably misconstrue my words as such and fire your invective comments my way). Personally, I think abortion is wrong 90-95% of the time. I would make exceptions for various reasons (now you know where I stand). And personally, I have nothing against Huckabee or any other candidate who is open and honest about their religious convictions. My beef is with those who vote solely on those convictions. It is inconsistent to do so and here why:

Evangelical Christianity is a religion that presupposes that the person must make a personal decision to "follow Christ" or be "born again." Without making said decision, the person is doomed to an eternity in hell. So much emphasis is placed on this decision that it forms the crux of many Sunday Sermons. The altar call has become a mainstay of American religion since the 19th century. (Yes, it was largely absent from Christianity for nearly 2000 years, but that is another topic altogether). Yet, these same people are the ones who consistently vote for political candidates who they feel will push for legal and constitutional provisions in which the government will regulate moral issues such as abortion. Thus we would have a situation in which the choice of making a moral decision has been removed from our hands. Is it the job of the government to do this? If so, why are these same people not pushing for constitutional amendments and laws that require each American citizen to make a personal decision to be born again?

OOOOOH! That would be logically consistent and make too much sense and that is my primary criticism of the right. If the government is supposed to regulate moral issues, it may as well regulate the most important moral issue of all--one's relationship to his or her creator, god, higher power, yada yada yada. But do we see this being pushed for by the right? No! Why not? Because it is actually a violation of the principle of the separation of church and state. Originally this concept was meant to keep the government from imposing any brand of state religion upon the people. Freedom of worship was a given. Because abortion and other similar issues are moral issues, they too have religious connotations and must be left outside of the political realm, and yet people are still voting for their candidate of choice based on these considerations. So, if your vote is based on moral convictions, you had damn well better be pushing for a repeal of the first amendment (which you are not). So, if you really think about it, a vote for the right is a vote against the constitution and America. So for those that think that Obama is un-American (which he is not) or that Clinton is too liberal or that the only way one can vote is republican (due to moral issues), please stop being un-American!